Peter Pan, Chapter XV. “HOOK OR ME THIS TIME”, sentence 34
“It’s gone, captain,” Smee said, wiping off his spectacles.
Who acts: courage, Smee · What happens: be, say, wipe off · To what, where: spectacles · 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 (courage, Smee), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 gone | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 gone | nsubj |
| 3 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 gone | cop |
| 4 | gone | gone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 said | ccomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 captain | punct |
| 6 | captain | captain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gone | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 gone | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 gone | punct |
| 9 | Smee | Smee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 wiping | punct |
| 12 | wiping | wipe | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 said | advcl |
| 13 | off | off | ADP | _ | 12 wiping | compound:prt |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 spectacles | nmod:poss |
| 15 | spectacles | spectacle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 wiping | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | courage | gone property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Smee | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | wipe off | gerund | Smee not said here | Smee's spectacles | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent spectacle=Source |
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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