Peter Pan, Chapter XV. “HOOK OR ME THIS TIME”, sentence 86
With a despairing scream the pirate leapt upon Long Tom and precipitated himself into the sea.
Who acts: pirate leapt · What happens: despair, precipitate · To what, where: leapt, sea
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 (pirate leapt), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 4 scream | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 scream | det |
| 3 | despairing | despair | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 scream | amod |
| 4 | scream | scream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 precipitated | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 leapt | det |
| 6 | pirate | pirate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 leapt | compound |
| 7 | leapt | leapt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 precipitated | nsubj |
| 8 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 9 Long | case |
| 9 | Long | Long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 leapt | nmod |
| 10 | Tom | Tom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Long | flat |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 precipitated | cc |
| 12 | precipitated | precipitate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 12 precipitated | obj |
| 14 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 sea | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 sea | det |
| 16 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 precipitated | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 precipitated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | despair | gerund | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 2 | precipitate | past | the pirate leapt upon Long | leapt | the sea | with a despairing scream | 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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