Peter Pan, Chapter XV. “HOOK OR ME THIS TIME”, sentence 33
They could hear each other’s distressed breathing now, which showed them that the more terrible sound had passed.
Who acts: pirates, other ’s · What happens: hear, distress, breathe, show, pass · To what, where: pirates, terrible sound · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (pirates, other ’s), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 hear | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 hear | aux |
| 3 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 ’s | det |
| 5 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 ’s | amod |
| 6 | ’s | ' | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 distressed | nsubj |
| 7 | distressed | distress | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 hear | ccomp |
| 8 | breathing | breathe | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 distressed | xcomp |
| 9 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 breathing | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 showed | punct |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 showed | nsubj |
| 12 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 breathing | conj |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 showed | obj |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 passed | mark |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 sound | det |
| 16 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 17 terrible | advmod |
| 17 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 sound | amod |
| 18 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 passed | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 passed | aux |
| 20 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 showed | advcl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | could | pirates = pirate | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | distress | past | each other ’s | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | breathe | gerund | each other ’s not said here | now | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | show | past | pirates = pirate | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient | |||||
| 5 | pass | past · perfect · passive | the terrible sound | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory |
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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