Peter Pan, Chapter XV. “HOOK OR ME THIS TIME”, sentence 38
“Then here’s to Johnny Plank!” he cried brazenly, hating the boys more than ever because they had seen him unbend.
Who acts: Plank, boys · What happens: be, cry, hate, see, unbend · To what, where: Johnny Plank, boys, Plank · 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 (Plank, boys), 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 | _ | 3 here | punct |
| 2 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 here | advmod |
| 3 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 cried | advmod |
| 4 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 here | cop |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 Plank | case |
| 6 | Johnny | Johnny | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Plank | compound |
| 7 | Plank | Plank | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 here | obl |
| 8 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 here | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 here | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 cried | nsubj |
| 11 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | brazenly | brazenly | ADV | _ | 11 cried | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 hating | punct |
| 14 | hating | hate | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 cried | advcl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 boys | det |
| 16 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 hating | obj |
| 17 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 14 hating | advmod |
| 18 | than | than | ADP | _ | 19 ever | case |
| 19 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 17 more | obl |
| 20 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 23 seen | mark |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 seen | nsubj |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 seen | aux |
| 23 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 cried | advcl |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 seen | obj |
| 25 | unbend | unbend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 seen | xcomp |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | Johnny Plank | then | here property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | Plank | brazenly property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | hate | gerund | Plank not said here | the boys | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer boy=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | see | past · perfect | boys = boy | Plank | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | unbend | infinitive | Plank not said here | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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