Peter Pan, Chapter XV. “HOOK OR ME THIS TIME”, sentence 96

“He’s as dead as Jukes,” said Hook shortly.

Who acts: Cecco, Hook · What happens: be, say · 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 (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	“	"	PUNCT	_	5 dead	punct
2	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 dead	nsubj
3	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 dead	cop
4	as	as	ADV	_	5 dead	advmod
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 said	ccomp
6	as	as	ADP	_	7 Jukes	case
7	Jukes	Jukes	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 dead	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 dead	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 dead	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	Hook	Hook	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
12	shortly	shortly	ADV	_	10 said	advmod
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	Cecco					as Jukes; dead property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	Hook					shortly property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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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