Peter Pan, Chapter XV. “HOOK OR ME THIS TIME”, sentence 60
“Bill Jukes dead!” cried the startled pirates.
Who acts: Bill, startled pirates · What happens: juke, cry, startle · 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 (Bill, startled pirates), 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 Jukes | punct |
| 2 | Bill | Bill | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Jukes | nsubj |
| 3 | Jukes | juke | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 cried | advcl |
| 4 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Jukes | xcomp |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 Jukes | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Jukes | punct |
| 7 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 pirates | det |
| 9 | startled | startle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 pirates | amod |
| 10 | pirates | pirate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 cried | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | juke in a quote | present | Bill | dead property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | the startled pirates | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | startle | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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