Peter Pan, Chapter XV. “HOOK OR ME THIS TIME”, sentence 85
As he backed up Hook advanced, and now the red spark was in his eye.
Who acts: Starkey, red spark · What happens: back up, be · To what, where: Hook, eye
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, red spark), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 backed | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 backed | nsubj |
| 3 | backed | back | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 backed | compound:prt |
| 5 | Hook | hook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 backed | obj |
| 6 | advanced | advanced | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Hook | amod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 eye | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 eye | cc |
| 9 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 eye | advmod |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 spark | det |
| 11 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 spark | amod |
| 12 | spark | spark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 eye | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 eye | cop |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 eye | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 eye | nmod:poss |
| 16 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 backed | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 backed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | back up | past | Starkey | Hook | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hook=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the red spark | Starkey's eye | now | 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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