Peter Pan, Chapter XVI. THE RETURN HOME, sentence 13
Slightly got a dozen for looking perplexed when told to take soundings.
What happens: get, perplex, tell, take · To what, where: dozen, soundings · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XVI. THE RETURN HOME. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Slightly | slightly | ADV | _ | 2 got | advmod |
| 2 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 dozen | det |
| 4 | dozen | dozen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 got | obj |
| 5 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 7 perplexed | mark |
| 6 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 perplexed | aux:pass |
| 7 | perplexed | perplex | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 got | advcl |
| 8 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 told | advmod |
| 9 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 perplexed | advcl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 take | mark |
| 11 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 told | xcomp |
| 12 | soundings | sounding | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 take | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | a dozen | slightly property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dozen=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | perplex | gerund · passive | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» | ||||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | participle | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 4 | take not said to happen | to-infinitive | soundings | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sounding=Theme |
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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