Peter Pan, Chapter XV. “HOOK OR ME THIS TIME”, sentence 40
“Yo ho, yo ho, the frisky plank, You walks along it so, Till it goes down and you goes down To Davy Jones below!”
Who acts: ho, ditty, you · What happens: walk, go down · To what, where: ditty, Davy Jones
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 (ho, ditty, you), 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 | _ | 13 walks | punct |
| 2 | Yo | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Slng | 3 ho | nmod:poss |
| 3 | ho | ho | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 walks | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 ho | punct |
| 5 | yo | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Slng | 6 ho | nmod:poss |
| 6 | ho | ho | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ho | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 plank | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 plank | det |
| 9 | frisky | frisky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 plank | amod |
| 10 | plank | plank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ho | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 ho | punct |
| 12 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 walks | nsubj |
| 13 | walks | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | along | along | ADP | _ | 15 it | case |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 walks | obl |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 walks | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 goes | punct |
| 18 | Till | till | SCONJ | _ | 20 goes | mark |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 goes | nsubj |
| 20 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 walks | conj |
| 21 | down | down | ADV | _ | 20 goes | advmod |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 goes | cc |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 goes | nsubj |
| 24 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 goes | conj |
| 25 | down | down | ADV | _ | 24 goes | advmod |
| 26 | To | to | ADP | _ | 28 Jones | case |
| 27 | Davy | Davy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Jones | compound |
| 28 | Jones | Jones | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 goes | obl |
| 29 | below | below | ADV | _ | 24 goes | advmod |
| 30 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 20 goes | punct |
| 31 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 walks | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk in a quote | present | Yo's ho and yo's ho and the frisky plank | ditty | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along it=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | go down in a quote | present | ditty | down property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | go down in a quote | present | you | Davy Jones | below, down property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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