Peter Pan, Chapter XV. “HOOK OR ME THIS TIME”, sentence 4
When last we saw him he was stealing across the island with one finger to his lips and his dagger at the ready.
Who acts: last, experience · What happens: see, steal · To what, where: experience, island
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 (last, experience), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 saw | advmod |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 stealing | advcl |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 saw | obj |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 stealing | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 stealing | aux |
| 8 | stealing | steal | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 9 | across | across | ADP | _ | 11 island | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 island | det |
| 11 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stealing | obl |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 finger | case |
| 13 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 finger | nummod |
| 14 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stealing | obl |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 lips | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 lips | nmod:poss |
| 17 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 stealing | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 dagger | cc |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 dagger | nmod:poss |
| 20 | dagger | dagger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 lips | conj |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 ready | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 ready | det |
| 23 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 dagger | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 stealing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | last | experience | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | steal | past · progressive | experience | the island | with one finger; to experience's lips and experience's dagger at the ready | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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