Peter Pan, Chapter XV. “HOOK OR ME THIS TIME”, sentence 61

“The cabin’s as black as a pit,” Cecco said, almost gibbering, “but there is something terrible in there: the thing you heard crowing.”

Who acts: cabin, Cecco, thing · What happens: be, say, gibber, hear, crow · 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 (cabin, Cecco, thing), 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	_	6 black	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cabin	det
3	cabin	cabin	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 black	nsubj
4	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 black	cop
5	as	as	ADV	_	6 black	advmod
6	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 said	ccomp
7	as	as	ADP	_	9 pit	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 pit	det
9	pit	pit	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 black	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 black	punct
11	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 black	punct
12	Cecco	Cecco	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 said	nsubj
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 gibbering	punct
15	almost	almost	ADV	_	16 gibbering	advmod
16	gibbering	gibber	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 said	ccomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 there	punct
18	“	"	PUNCT	_	25 there	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 is	cc
20	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	21 is	expl
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 there	cop
22	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	21 is	nsubj
23	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 something	amod
24	in	in	ADP	_	25 there	case
25	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 gibbering	advmod
26	:	:	PUNCT	_	30 heard	punct
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 thing	det
28	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 heard	nsubj
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	30 heard	nsubj
30	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 said	conj
31	crowing	crow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	30 heard	xcomp
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	30 heard	punct
33	”	"	PUNCT	_	30 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	the cabin	as a pit; black property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	Cecco		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	gibber speech: other	gerund		almost property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is in a quote	present		there property	tree rules
5	hear in a quote	past	the thing		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	crow in a quote	gerund	the thing not said here		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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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