Peter Pan, Chapter XV. “HOOK OR ME THIS TIME”, sentence 89
Seizing a lantern and raising his claw with a menacing gesture, “I’ll bring out that doodle-doo myself,” he said, and sped into the cabin.
Who acts: mutiny · What happens: seize, raise, menace, 'll, bring out, say · To what, where: lantern, claw, doodle doo, cabin · 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 | Seizing | seize | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 26 said | advcl |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 lantern | det |
| 3 | lantern | lantern | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Seizing | obj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 raising | cc |
| 5 | raising | raise | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Seizing | conj |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 claw | nmod:poss |
| 7 | claw | claw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 raising | obj |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 gesture | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 gesture | det |
| 10 | menacing | menace | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 gesture | amod |
| 11 | gesture | gesture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 raising | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 ’ll | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 ’ll | punct |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 ’ll | nsubj |
| 15 | ’ll | 'll | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Seizing | conj |
| 16 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 ’ll | ccomp |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 16 bring | compound:prt |
| 18 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 doo | det |
| 19 | doodle | doodle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 doo | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 doodle | punct |
| 21 | doo | doo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 bring | obj |
| 22 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 16 bring | obl:unmarked |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Seizing | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Seizing | punct |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 said | nsubj |
| 26 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 sped | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 sped | cc |
| 29 | sped | speed | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 said | ccomp |
| 30 | into | into | ADP | _ | 32 cabin | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 cabin | det |
| 32 | cabin | cabin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 sped | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 26 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seize | gerund | mutiny not said here | a lantern | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lantern=Theme | ||||
| 2 | raise | gerund | mutiny not said here | mutiny's claw | with a menacing gesture | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent claw=Patient with gesture=Instrument | |||
| 3 | menace | gerund | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 4 | 'll in a quote | present | mutiny | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | bring out in a quote | infinitive | mutiny not said here | that doodle doo | myself obl:unmarked | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent doo=Patient | |||
| 6 | say speech: assert | past | mutiny | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 7 | speed | past | the cabin | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into cabin=Destination |
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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