Peter Pan, Chapter XV. “HOOK OR ME THIS TIME”, sentence 77
“I wonder if it would not be advisable, Starkey, to humour the hook?”
Who acts: Hook, exultation · What happens: wonder, not be, humour · To what, where: hook
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, exultation), 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 wonder | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 wonder | nsubj |
| 3 | wonder | wonder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 9 advisable | mark |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 advisable | nsubj |
| 6 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 advisable | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 advisable | advmod |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 advisable | cop |
| 9 | advisable | advisable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 wonder | ccomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Starkey | punct |
| 11 | Starkey | Starkey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 advisable | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 humour | punct |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 humour | mark |
| 14 | humour | humour | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 wonder | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 hook | det |
| 16 | hook | hook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 humour | obj |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 wonder | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 wonder | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wonder speech: ask in a quote | present | Hook | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | not is a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | would | exultation | Starkey obl; advisable property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | humour in a quote | to-infinitive | Hook not said here | the hook | tree rules |
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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