Peter Pan, Chapter XV. “HOOK OR ME THIS TIME”, sentence 41

To terrorise the prisoners the more, though with a certain loss of dignity, he danced along an imaginary plank, grimacing at them as he sang; and when he finished he cried, “Do you want a touch of the cat before you walk the plank?”

Who acts: Plank, you · What happens: terrorise, dance, grimace, sing, finish, cry · To what, where: prisoners, imaginary plank, touch, plank, cat · 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, 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	To	to	PART	_	2 terrorise	mark
2	terrorise	terrorise	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 prisoners	det
4	prisoners	prisoner	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 terrorise	obj
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 more	det
6	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	2 terrorise	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 loss	punct
8	though	though	SCONJ	_	12 loss	mark
9	with	with	ADP	_	12 loss	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 loss	det
11	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 loss	amod
12	loss	loss	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 terrorise	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 dignity	case
14	dignity	dignity	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 loss	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 danced	punct
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 danced	nsubj
17	danced	dance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 terrorise	parataxis
18	along	along	ADP	_	21 plank	case
19	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 plank	det
20	imaginary	imaginary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 plank	amod
21	plank	plank	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 danced	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 grimacing	punct
23	grimacing	grimace	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 danced	advcl
24	at	at	ADP	_	25 them	case
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 grimacing	obl
26	as	as	SCONJ	_	28 sang	mark
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 sang	nsubj
28	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 grimacing	advcl
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 finished	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 finished	cc
31	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	33 finished	advmod
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 finished	nsubj
33	finished	finish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 danced	conj
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 cried	nsubj
35	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 finished	conj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 want	punct
37	“	"	PUNCT	_	40 want	punct
38	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	40 want	aux
39	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	40 want	nsubj
40	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 cried	ccomp
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 touch	det
42	touch	touch	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 want	obj
43	of	of	ADP	_	45 cat	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 cat	det
45	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 touch	nmod
46	before	before	SCONJ	_	48 walk	mark
47	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	48 walk	nsubj
48	walk	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	40 want	advcl
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 plank	det
50	plank	plank	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 walk	obj
51	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 terrorise	punct
52	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 terrorise	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	terrorise	to-infinitive		the prisoners		with a certain loss of dignity	tree rules
2	dance	past	Plank		a imaginary plank		vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along plank=Location
3	grimace	gerund	Plank not said here			at prisoners = prisoner	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	sing speech: express	past	Plank				vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location
5	finish	past	Plank				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
6	cry speech: express	past	Plank				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	want in a quote	present · do-support	you	a touch of the cat			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot touch=Theme
8	walk in a quote	present	you	the plank			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme plank=Trajectory
9	touch in a quote			the cat			nom touch «event transitive»: of=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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