Peter Pan, Chapter XV. “HOOK OR ME THIS TIME”, sentence 99
“I’ve heard,” muttered Mullins, “he always boards the pirate craft last.
Who acts: Mullins · What happens: hear, mutter, board · To what, where: pirate craft · 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 (Mullins), 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 | _ | 4 heard | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 heard | nsubj |
| 3 | ’ve | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 heard | aux |
| 4 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 muttered | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 heard | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 heard | punct |
| 7 | muttered | mutter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Mullins | Mullins | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 muttered | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 boards | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 boards | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 boards | nsubj |
| 12 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 13 boards | advmod |
| 13 | boards | board | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 muttered | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 craft | det |
| 15 | pirate | pirate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 craft | compound |
| 16 | craft | craft | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 boards | obj |
| 17 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 boards | xcomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 muttered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear in a quote | present · perfect | Mullins | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | mutter speech: assert | past | Mullins | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | board in a quote | present | Mullins | the pirate craft | always, last property | vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme craft=Location |
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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