Peter Pan, Chapter IV. THE FLIGHT, sentence 150
“It is this, if we meet Hook in open fight, you must leave him to me.”
Who acts: pirate, we, you · What happens: be, meet, leave · To what, where: this, Hook, open fight, Peter
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 (pirate, we, you), 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 | _ | 16 leave | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 this | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 this | cop |
| 4 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 1 “ | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 this | punct |
| 6 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 8 meet | mark |
| 7 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 meet | nsubj |
| 8 | meet | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 leave | advcl |
| 9 | Hook | hook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 meet | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 fight | case |
| 11 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 fight | amod |
| 12 | fight | fight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 meet | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 meet | punct |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 leave | nsubj |
| 15 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 leave | aux |
| 16 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 leave | obj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 me | case |
| 19 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 leave | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 leave | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 leave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | pirate | this | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | meet a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | we | Hook | open fight | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hook=Co-Agent | |||
| 3 | leave in a quote | must | you | Hook | Peter | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Theme to i=Recipient |
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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