Peter Pan, Chapter XV. “HOOK OR ME THIS TIME”, sentence 92

He wetted his lips to be ready, but Hook came staggering out, without his lantern.

Who acts: Cecco, Hook · What happens: wett, be, come, stagger out · To what, where: lips

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 (Cecco, 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wetted	nsubj
2	wetted	wett	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 lips	nmod:poss
4	lips	lip	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 wetted	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	7 ready	mark
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 ready	cop
7	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 wetted	advcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 came	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 came	cc
10	Hook	hook	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 came	nsubj
11	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wetted	conj
12	staggering	stagger	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 came	xcomp
13	out	out	ADP	_	12 staggering	compound:prt
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 lantern	punct
15	without	without	ADP	_	17 lantern	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 lantern	nmod:poss
17	lantern	lantern	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 staggering	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wetted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	wett	past	Cecco	Cecco's lips		tree rules
2	is	to-infinitive	Cecco not said here		ready property	tree rules
3	come	past	Hook			tree rules
4	stagger out	gerund	Hook not said here		without Cecco's lantern	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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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