Peter Pan, Chapter IV. THE FLIGHT, sentence 124
“He was Blackbeard’s bo’sun,” John whispered huskily.
Who acts: Michael, bo’sun · What happens: be, whisper · To what, where: bo’sun · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter IV. THE FLIGHT. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Michael, bo’sun), 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 | _ | 6 bo’sun | punct |
| 2 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 bo’sun | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 bo’sun | cop |
| 4 | Blackbeard | Blackbeard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 bo’sun | nmod:poss |
| 5 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 4 Blackbeard | case |
| 6 | bo’sun | bo'sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 whispered | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 bo’sun | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 bo’sun | punct |
| 9 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 whispered | nsubj |
| 10 | whispered | whisper | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | huskily | huskily | ADV | _ | 10 whispered | advmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 whispered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | past | Michael | Blackbeard's bo’sun | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | whisper speech: assert | past | Blackbeard's bo’sun | huskily property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: 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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