Peter Pan, Chapter XV. “HOOK OR ME THIS TIME”, sentence 83
“Shake hands, Starkey,” said Hook, proffering his claw.
Who acts: Hook · What happens: shake, say, proffer · To what, where: hands, claw · 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 (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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Shake | punct |
| 2 | Shake | shake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 3 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Shake | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Starkey | punct |
| 5 | Starkey | Starkey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Shake | vocative |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Shake | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Shake | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Hook | Hook | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 proffering | punct |
| 11 | proffering | proffer | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 said | advcl |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 claw | nmod:poss |
| 13 | claw | claw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 proffering | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shake in a quote | infinitive | hands | Starkey vocative | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent hand=Patient | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Hook | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | proffer | gerund | Hook not said here | Starkey's claw | vn contribute-13.2-2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent claw=Theme |
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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