Peter Pan, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE, sentence 104

For instance, after killing, it was his spectacles he wiped instead of his weapon.

Who acts: cutlass, Smee · What happens: kill, be, wipe · To what, where: spectacles

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 (cutlass, Smee), 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	For	for	ADP	_	2 instance	case
2	instance	instance	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 killing	punct
4	after	after	SCONJ	_	5 killing	mark
5	killing	kill	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 instance	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 instance	punct
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 spectacles	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 spectacles	cop
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 spectacles	nmod:poss
10	spectacles	spectacle	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 instance	conj
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 wiped	nsubj
12	wiped	wipe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 spectacles	acl:relcl
13	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	16 weapon	case
14	of	of	ADP	_	13 instead	fixed
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 weapon	nmod:poss
16	weapon	weapon	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 wiped	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 spectacles	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	kill	gerund				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	is a	past	cutlass	Smee's spectacles		tree rules
3	wipe	past	Smee	Smee's spectacles not said here	instead Smee's weapon	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent spectacle=Source

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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