Peter Pan, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE, sentence 113
“Most of all,” Hook was saying passionately, “I want their captain, Peter Pan. ’
Who acts: Hook · What happens: say, want · To what, where: captain · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Hook), 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 | _ | 9 saying | punct |
| 2 | Most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 4 all | amod |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 all | case |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 Hook | det |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 all | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 all | punct |
| 7 | Hook | hook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 saying | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 saying | aux |
| 9 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 10 | passionately | passionately | ADV | _ | 9 saying | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 want | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 want | punct |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 want | nsubj |
| 14 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 saying | parataxis |
| 15 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 captain | nmod:poss |
| 16 | captain | captain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 want | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Peter | punct |
| 18 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 captain | appos |
| 19 | Pan | Pan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Peter | flat |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 saying | punct |
| 21 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 saying | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past · progressive | all Hook | passionately property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | want in a quote | present | all Hook = hook | trees's captain | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot captain=Theme |
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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