Peter Pan, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE, sentence 102

Smee had pleasant names for everything, and his cutlass was Johnny Corkscrew, because he wiggled it in the wound.

Who acts: Smee, cutlass · What happens: have, be, wiggle · To what, where: pleasant names, Johnny, cutlass

This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Smee, cutlass), 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	Smee	Smee	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 names	amod
4	names	name	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 had	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 everything	case
6	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	4 names	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 Johnny	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 Johnny	cc
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 cutlass	nmod:poss
10	cutlass	cutlass	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 Johnny	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 Johnny	cop
12	Johnny	Johnny	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 had	obl
13	Corkscrew	Corkscrew	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Johnny	flat
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 wiggled	punct
15	because	because	SCONJ	_	17 wiggled	mark
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 wiggled	nsubj
17	wiggled	wiggle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	conj
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 wiggled	obj
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 wound	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 wound	det
21	wound	wound	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 wiggled	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	past	Smee	pleasant names	for everything	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Patient
2	is a	past	Smee's cutlass	Johnny		tree rules
3	wiggle	past	Smee	cutlass	in the wound	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Patient in wound=Topic

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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