Peter Pan, Chapter XV. “HOOK OR ME THIS TIME”, sentence 64
Cecco, bravest of the brave, cowered before his captain, crying “No, no”; but Hook was purring to his claw.
Who acts: Hook · What happens: cower, cry, purr · To what, where: no, claw
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 (Hook), 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 | Cecco | Cecco | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 bravest | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Cecco | punct |
| 3 | bravest | brave | ADJ | Degree=Sup | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 brave | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 brave | det |
| 6 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 bravest | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 cowered | punct |
| 8 | cowered | cower | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 brave | conj |
| 9 | before | before | ADP | _ | 11 captain | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 captain | nmod:poss |
| 11 | captain | captain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cowered | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 crying | punct |
| 13 | crying | cry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 captain | conj |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 no | punct |
| 15 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 17 no | discourse |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 No | punct |
| 17 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 13 crying | obj |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 no | punct |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 purring | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 purring | cc |
| 21 | Hook | Hook | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 purring | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 purring | aux |
| 23 | purring | purr | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 brave | conj |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 claw | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 claw | nmod:poss |
| 26 | claw | claw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 purring | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 bravest | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cower | participle | before Cecco's captain | vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | gerund | no | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent no=Topic | |||||
| 3 | purr | past · progressive | Hook | Cecco's claw | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to claw=Recipient |
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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