Peter Pan, Chapter XV. “HOOK OR ME THIS TIME”, sentence 7

Without giving a thought to what might be the feelings of a fellow-creature thus abruptly deprived of its closest companion, Peter began to consider how he could turn the catastrophe to his own use; and he decided to tick, so that wild beasts should believe he was the crocodile and let him pass unmolested.

Who acts: Peter, experience, wild beasts · What happens: give, be, deprive, begin, consider, turn · To what, where: thought, fellow creature, catastrophe, own use, crocodile, experience · 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 (Peter, experience, wild beasts), 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	Without	without	SCONJ	_	2 giving	mark
2	giving	give	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 began	advcl
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 thought	det
4	thought	thought	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 giving	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	10 feelings	case
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 feelings	nsubj
7	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 feelings	aux
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 feelings	cop
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 feelings	det
10	feelings	feeling	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 giving	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	15 creature	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 creature	det
13	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 creature	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 fellow	punct
15	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 feelings	nmod
16	thus	thus	ADV	_	18 deprived	advmod
17	abruptly	abruptly	ADV	_	18 deprived	advmod
18	deprived	deprive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 creature	acl
19	of	of	ADP	_	22 companion	case
20	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 companion	nmod:poss
21	closest	close	ADJ	Degree=Sup	22 companion	amod
22	companion	companion	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 deprived	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 giving	punct
24	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 began	nsubj
25	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
26	to	to	PART	_	27 consider	mark
27	consider	consider	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 began	xcomp
28	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	31 turn	advmod
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 turn	nsubj
30	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 turn	aux
31	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 consider	ccomp
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 catastrophe	det
33	catastrophe	catastrophe	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 turn	obj
34	to	to	ADP	_	37 use	case
35	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 use	nmod:poss
36	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 use	amod
37	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 turn	obl
38	;	;	PUNCT	_	41 decided	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 decided	cc
40	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 decided	nsubj
41	decided	decide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 began	conj
42	to	to	PART	_	43 tick	mark
43	tick	tick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 decided	xcomp
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 believe	punct
45	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	50 believe	mark
46	that	that	SCONJ	_	45 so	fixed
47	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 beasts	amod
48	beasts	beast	NOUN	Number=Plur	50 believe	nsubj
49	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	50 believe	aux
50	believe	believe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 tick	advcl
51	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 crocodile	nsubj
52	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	54 crocodile	cop
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 crocodile	det
54	crocodile	crocodile	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 believe	ccomp
55	and	and	CCONJ	_	56 let	cc
56	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	50 believe	conj
57	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	56 let	obj
58	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	56 let	xcomp
59	unmolested	unmolested	ADJ	Degree=Pos	58 pass	xcomp
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	25 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	give	gerund	Peter not said here	a thought			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thought=Theme
2	is	might				to the feelings; of a fellow creature	tree rules
3	deprive	participle		a fellow creature not said here		of creature's closest companion; abruptly, thus property	vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent of companion=Theme
4	begin	past	Peter				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	consider	to-infinitive	Peter not said here				vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
6	turn	could	Peter	the catastrophe	experience's own use		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent catastrophe=Theme to use=Trajectory
7	decide	past	experience				vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
8	tick not said to happen	to-infinitive	experience not said here				vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	believe	should	wild beasts				vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
10	is a	past	experience	the crocodile			tree rules
11	let	infinitive	wild beasts not said here	experience			tree rules
12	pass	infinitive	experience not said here			unmolested property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
13	use		experience				nom use «act transitive»: poss=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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