Peter Pan, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE, sentence 116
“I’ve waited long to shake his hand with this.
Who acts: Hook · What happens: have, wait, shake · To what, where: hand
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 | _ | 4 waited | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 ’ve | nsubj |
| 3 | ’ve | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 waited | parataxis |
| 4 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 waited | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 shake | mark |
| 7 | shake | shake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 waited | advcl |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 hand | nmod:poss |
| 9 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 shake | obj |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 this | case |
| 11 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 shake | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 waited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | present | all Hook = hook | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | wait in a quote | past | long property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | shake in a quote | to-infinitive | Hook's hand | with this | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient with this=Co-Patient |
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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