Peter Pan, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE, sentence 171
“The crocodile!” he gasped, and bounded away, followed by his bo’sun.
Who acts: crocodile · What happens: gasp, bound away, follow
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 (crocodile), 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 crocodile | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 crocodile | det |
| 3 | crocodile | crocodile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gasped | nsubj |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 crocodile | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 crocodile | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 gasped | nsubj |
| 7 | gasped | gasp | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 bounded | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 bounded | cc |
| 10 | bounded | bound | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 gasped | parataxis |
| 11 | away | away | ADV | _ | 10 bounded | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 followed | punct |
| 13 | followed | follow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 bounded | conj |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 bo’sun | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 bo’sun | nmod:poss |
| 16 | bo’sun | bo'sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 followed | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 gasped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gasp | past | the crocodile | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | bound away | participle | away property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | follow | participle | by Hook's bo’sun | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by bo'sun=Location |
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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