Peter Pan, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE, sentence 39
As dogs this terrible man treated and addressed them, and as dogs they obeyed him.
Who acts: terrible man, dogs · What happens: treat, address, obey · To what, where: dogs, man
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 (terrible man, dogs), 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 | As | as | ADP | _ | 2 dogs | case |
| 2 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 treated | obl |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 man | det |
| 4 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 man | amod |
| 5 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 treated | nsubj |
| 6 | treated | treat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 addressed | cc |
| 8 | addressed | address | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 treated | conj |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 addressed | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 obeyed | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 obeyed | cc |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 13 dogs | case |
| 13 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 obeyed | obl |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 obeyed | nsubj |
| 15 | obeyed | obey | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 treated | conj |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 obeyed | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 treated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | treat | past | this terrible man | as dogs | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent as dog=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | address | past | this terrible man not said here | dogs = dog | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Destination | ||||
| 3 | obey | past | dogs = dog | man | as dogs | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
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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