Peter Pan, Chapter XV. “HOOK OR ME THIS TIME”, sentence 58
“What’s the matter with Bill Jukes, you dog?” hissed Hook, towering over him.
Who acts: you, dog · What happens: dog, hiss, tower · To what, where: matter
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 (you, dog), 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 ’s | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 ’s | nsubj |
| 3 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 matter | det |
| 5 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 hissed | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 Bill | case |
| 7 | Bill | Bill | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 matter | nmod |
| 8 | Jukes | Jukes | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Bill | flat |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 dog | punct |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 dog | nsubj |
| 11 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 hissed | nsubj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 11 dog | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 dog | punct |
| 14 | hissed | hiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 ’s | conj |
| 15 | Hook | hook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 hissed | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 towering | punct |
| 17 | towering | tower | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 hissed | advcl |
| 18 | over | over | ADP | _ | 19 him | case |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 towering | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ’s | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dog in a quote | you | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | hiss | past | dog | the matter with Bill | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hook=Topic | ||||
| 3 | tower | gerund | dog not said here | over Bill | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over he=Location |
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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