Peter Pan, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE, sentence 155
“To return to the ship,” Hook replied slowly through his teeth, “and cook a large rich cake of a jolly thickness with green sugar on it.
Who acts: Hook · What happens: return, reply, cook · To what, where: teeth, large rich cake · 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 | _ | 3 return | punct |
| 2 | To | to | PART | _ | 3 return | mark |
| 3 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 Hook | acl |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 ship | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 ship | det |
| 6 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 return | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 return | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 return | punct |
| 9 | Hook | hook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 replied | nsubj |
| 10 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 10 replied | advmod |
| 12 | through | through | ADP | _ | 14 teeth | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 teeth | nmod:poss |
| 14 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 replied | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 cook | punct |
| 16 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 cook | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 cook | cc |
| 18 | cook | cook | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 replied | conj |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 cake | det |
| 20 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 cake | amod |
| 21 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 cake | amod |
| 22 | cake | cake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 cook | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 thickness | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 thickness | det |
| 25 | jolly | jolly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 thickness | amod |
| 26 | thickness | thickness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 cake | nmod |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 sugar | case |
| 28 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 sugar | amod |
| 29 | sugar | sugar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 thickness | nmod |
| 30 | on | on | ADP | _ | 31 it | case |
| 31 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 sugar | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return in a quote | to-infinitive | Hook not said here | to the ship result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to ship=Result | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | Hook | Hook's teeth | slowly property | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | cook in a quote | infinitive | Hook not said here | a large rich cake of a jolly thickness with green sugar on sugar | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent cake=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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