Peter Pan, Chapter XV. “HOOK OR ME THIS TIME”, sentence 32
None too soon, Peter, every inch of him on tiptoe, vanished into the cabin; for more than one pirate was screwing up his courage to look round.
Who acts: Peter, one pirate · What happens: vanish, screw up, look round · To what, where: cabin, courage
This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XV. “HOOK OR ME THIS TIME”. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Peter, one pirate), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | None | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 5 Peter | nsubj |
| 2 | too | too | ADV | _ | 3 soon | advmod |
| 3 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 1 None | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Peter | punct |
| 5 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 vanished | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 inch | punct |
| 7 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 inch | det |
| 8 | inch | inch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Peter | appos |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 him | case |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 inch | nmod |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 tiptoe | case |
| 12 | tiptoe | tiptoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 inch | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Peter | punct |
| 14 | vanished | vanish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | into | into | ADP | _ | 17 cabin | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 cabin | det |
| 17 | cabin | cabin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 vanished | obl |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 screwing | punct |
| 19 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 25 screwing | mark |
| 20 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 22 one | advmod |
| 21 | than | than | ADP | _ | 20 more | fixed |
| 22 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 pirate | nummod |
| 23 | pirate | pirate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 screwing | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 screwing | aux |
| 25 | screwing | screw | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 vanished | advcl |
| 26 | up | up | ADP | _ | 25 screwing | compound:prt |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 courage | nmod:poss |
| 28 | courage | courage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 screwing | obj |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 look | mark |
| 30 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 screwing | advcl |
| 31 | round | round | ADV | _ | 30 look | advmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 vanished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | vanish | past | Peter | the cabin | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | screw up | past · progressive | one pirate | Peter's courage | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent courage=Patient | ||||
| 3 | look round | to-infinitive | one pirate not said here | round property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Project Gutenberg book 16 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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