Peter Pan, Chapter XV. “HOOK OR ME THIS TIME”, sentence 82
Starkey whimpered, all of a tremble now.
Who acts: Starkey · What happens: whimper
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 (Starkey), 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 | Starkey | Starkey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 whimpered | nsubj |
| 2 | whimpered | whimper | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 all | punct |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 whimpered | conj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 tremble | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 tremble | det |
| 7 | tremble | tremble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 all | nmod |
| 8 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 whimpered | advmod |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 whimpered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | whimper | past | Starkey | now | vn animal_sounds-38 «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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