Peter Pan, Chapter XV. “HOOK OR ME THIS TIME”, sentence 50
“Yo ho, yo ho, the scratching cat, Its tails are nine, you know, And when they’re writ upon your back—”
Who acts: tails, you · What happens: be, know · To what, where: nine, writ
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 (tails, 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 | _ | 3 ho | 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 | root | root |
| 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 cat | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 cat | det |
| 9 | scratching | scratching | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 cat | compound |
| 10 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ho | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 nine | punct |
| 12 | Its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 tails | nmod:poss |
| 13 | tails | tail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 nine | nsubj |
| 14 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 nine | cop |
| 15 | nine | nine | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 ho | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 know | punct |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 know | nsubj |
| 18 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 ho | parataxis |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 ’re | punct |
| 20 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 ’re | cc |
| 21 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 23 ’re | advmod |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 ’re | nsubj |
| 23 | ’re | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 know | conj |
| 24 | writ | writ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 ’re | obj |
| 25 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 27 back | case |
| 26 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 back | nmod:poss |
| 27 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 ’re | obl |
| 28 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 ho | punct |
| 29 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 ho | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | cat's tails | nine | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | know in a quote | present | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | does in a quote | present | tails = tail | writ | upon your back | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot writ=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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