Peter Pan, Chapter XV. “HOOK OR ME THIS TIME”, sentence 36
Slowly Hook let his head emerge from his ruff, and listened so intently that he could have caught the echo of the tick.
Who acts: Hook, head · What happens: let, emerge, listen, catch · To what, where: ruff, head
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 (Hook, head), 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 | Slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 3 let | advmod |
| 2 | Hook | Hook | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 let | nsubj |
| 3 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 head | nmod:poss |
| 5 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 emerge | nsubj |
| 6 | emerge | emerge | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 let | xcomp |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 ruff | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 ruff | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ruff | ruff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 emerge | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 listened | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 listened | cc |
| 12 | listened | listen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 let | conj |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 intently | advmod |
| 14 | intently | intently | ADV | _ | 12 listened | advmod |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 caught | mark |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 caught | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 caught | aux |
| 18 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 caught | aux |
| 19 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 listened | advcl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 echo | det |
| 21 | echo | echo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 caught | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 tick | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 tick | det |
| 24 | tick | tick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 echo | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | past | Hook | slowly property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | emerge | infinitive | Smee's head | head's ruff | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from ruff=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | listen | past | Hook not said here | intently property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | catch | could · perfect · passive | head | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary echo=Theme |
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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