Peter Pan, Chapter XV. “HOOK OR ME THIS TIME”, sentence 59
“The matter wi’ him is he’s dead, stabbed,” replied Cecco in a hollow voice.
Who acts: matter wi, Cecco · What happens: be, stab, reply · To what, where: hollow voice · 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 (matter wi, Cecco), 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 | _ | 10 dead | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 wi | det |
| 3 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wi | compound |
| 4 | wi | wi | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 dead | nsubj |
| 5 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 wi | punct |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 wi | obj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 dead | cop |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 dead | nsubj |
| 9 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 dead | cop |
| 10 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 replied | ccomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 stabbed | punct |
| 12 | stabbed | stab | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 dead | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 stabbed | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 dead | punct |
| 15 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | Cecco | Cecco | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 replied | nsubj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 voice | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 voice | det |
| 19 | hollow | hollow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 voice | amod |
| 20 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 replied | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | the matter wi | dead property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | stab in a quote | participle | the matter wi not said here | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | reply speech: assert | past | Cecco | a hollow voice | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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