Peter Pan, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE, sentence 31
A more villainous-looking lot never hung in a row on Execution dock.
What happens: look, not hang · To what, where: looking lot, row
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: 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 lot | det |
| 2 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 3 villainous | advmod |
| 3 | villainous | villainous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 looking | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 villainous | punct |
| 5 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 lot | amod |
| 6 | lot | lot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hung | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 8 hung | advmod |
| 8 | hung | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 row | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 row | det |
| 11 | row | row | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hung | obl |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 dock | case |
| 13 | Execution | execution | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 dock | compound |
| 14 | dock | dock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hung | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 hung | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | gerund | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||||
| 2 | not hang | past | a looking lot | a row | on Execution dock | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in row=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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