Peter Pan, Chapter IV. THE FLIGHT, sentence 142
“He has an iron hook instead of a right hand, and he claws with it.”
Who acts: bo’sun · What happens: have, claw · To what, where: iron hook
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 (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 | _ | 3 has | punct |
| 2 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 has | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 hook | det |
| 5 | iron | iron | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 hook | amod |
| 6 | hook | hook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 has | obj |
| 7 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=ADP | 11 hand | case |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 instead | fixed |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 hand | det |
| 10 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 hand | amod |
| 11 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hook | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 claws | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 claws | cc |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 claws | nsubj |
| 15 | claws | claw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 has | obj |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 it | case |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 claws | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 has | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | present | bo’sun = bo'sun | a iron hook | instead a right hand | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hook=Patient | |||
| 2 | claw in a quote | bo’sun = bo'sun | with hand | tree rules |
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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