Peter Pan, Chapter XV. “HOOK OR ME THIS TIME”, sentence 56
The Italian Cecco hesitated for a moment and then swung into the cabin.
What happens: hesitate, swing · To what, where: Italian Cecco, cabin
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: 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Cecco | det |
| 2 | Italian | Italian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Cecco | amod |
| 3 | Cecco | Cecco | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 hesitated | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | hesitated | hesitate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 moment | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 moment | det |
| 7 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hesitated | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 swung | cc |
| 9 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 swung | advmod |
| 10 | swung | swing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 hesitated | conj |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 cabin | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 cabin | det |
| 13 | cabin | cabin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 swung | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 hesitated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hesitate | participle | the Italian Cecco | moment | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | swing | past | the cabin | then | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into cabin=Trajectory |
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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