Peter Pan, Chapter XV. “HOOK OR ME THIS TIME”, sentence 79
“Is this mutiny?” asked Hook more pleasantly than ever.
Who acts: mutiny · What happens: be, ask · To what, where: mutiny, Hook · 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 (mutiny), 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 | _ | 4 mutiny | punct |
| 2 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 mutiny | cop |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 mutiny | det |
| 4 | mutiny | mutiny | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 asked | nsubj |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 mutiny | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 mutiny | punct |
| 7 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Hook | hook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 asked | obj |
| 9 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 10 pleasantly | advmod |
| 10 | pleasantly | pleasantly | ADV | _ | 7 asked | advmod |
| 11 | than | than | ADP | _ | 12 ever | case |
| 12 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 10 pleasantly | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | this mutiny | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | this mutiny | Hook | pleasantly property | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent hook=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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