Peter Pan, Chapter XVI. THE RETURN HOME, sentence 8
The bluff strident words struck the note sailors understood, and they cheered him lustily.
Who acts: bluff strident words, note sailors, sailors · What happens: strike, understand, cheer · To what, where: John
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: who acts (bluff strident words, note sailors, sailors), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 words | det |
| 2 | bluff | bluff | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 words | amod |
| 3 | strident | strident | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 words | amod |
| 4 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 struck | nsubj |
| 5 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 sailors | det |
| 7 | note | note | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sailors | compound |
| 8 | sailors | sailor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 understood | nsubj |
| 9 | understood | understand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 struck | ccomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 cheered | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 cheered | cc |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 cheered | nsubj |
| 13 | cheered | cheer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 struck | conj |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 cheered | obj |
| 15 | lustily | lustily | ADV | _ | 13 cheered | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 struck | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | strike | past | the bluff strident words | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | understand | past | the note sailors | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | cheer | past | sailors = sailor | John | lustily property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=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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