Peter Pan, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE, sentence 130

“Smee,” he said huskily, “that crocodile would have had me before this, but by a lucky chance it swallowed a clock which goes tick tick inside it, and so before it can reach me I hear the tick and bolt.”

Who acts: Peter, crocodile, chance, clock · What happens: say, have, swallow, go, tick, reach · To what, where: Peter, clock, tick, chance · 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 (Peter, crocodile, chance, clock), 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	_	2 Smee	punct
2	Smee	smee	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	ccomp
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Smee	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Smee	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 said	nsubj
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	huskily	huskily	ADV	_	6 said	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 had	punct
9	“	"	PUNCT	_	14 had	punct
10	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 crocodile	det
11	crocodile	crocodile	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 had	nsubj
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 had	aux
13	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 had	aux
14	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 said	conj
15	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 had	obj
16	before	before	ADP	_	17 this	case
17	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 had	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 swallowed	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 swallowed	cc
20	by	by	ADP	_	23 chance	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 chance	det
22	lucky	lucky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 chance	amod
23	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 swallowed	obl
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 swallowed	nsubj
25	swallowed	swallow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 said	conj
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 clock	det
27	clock	clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 swallowed	obj
28	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 goes	nsubj
29	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 clock	acl:relcl
30	tick	tick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 goes	xcomp
31	tick	tick	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 tick	obj
32	inside	inside	ADP	_	33 it	case
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 tick	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 hear	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 hear	cc
36	so	so	ADV	_	43 hear	advmod
37	before	before	SCONJ	_	40 reach	mark
38	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 reach	nsubj
39	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 reach	aux
40	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 hear	advcl
41	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	40 reach	obj
42	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	43 hear	nsubj
43	hear	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 said	parataxis
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 tick	det
45	tick	tick	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 hear	obj
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 bolt	cc
47	bolt	bolt	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 tick	conj
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct
49	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Peter				huskily property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	have in a quote	would · perfect	that crocodile	Peter		before this		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient
3	swallow in a quote	past	chance	a clock			by a lucky chance	vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clock=Patient
4	go in a quote	present	a clock					vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	tick in a quote	infinitive	a clock not said here	tick	chance			vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tick=Theme
6	reach in a quote	can	chance	Peter				vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent i=Theme
7	hear in a quote	present	Peter	the tick and bolt				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer tick=Stimulus

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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