Peter Pan, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE, sentence 42
In manner, something of the grand seigneur still clung to him, so that he even ripped you up with an air, and I have been told that he was a _raconteur_ of repute.
Who acts: something, man · What happens: cling, rip up, tell, be · To what, where: man, manner, you, I, _ raconteur _ · 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 (something, man), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 manner | case |
| 2 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 clung | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 something | punct |
| 4 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 10 clung | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 seigneur | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 seigneur | det |
| 7 | grand | grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 seigneur | amod |
| 8 | seigneur | seigneur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 something | nmod |
| 9 | still | still | ADV | _ | 10 clung | advmod |
| 10 | clung | cling | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 him | case |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 clung | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 ripped | punct |
| 14 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 18 ripped | mark |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 so | fixed |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 ripped | nsubj |
| 17 | even | even | ADV | _ | 18 ripped | advmod |
| 18 | ripped | rip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 clung | conj |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 ripped | obj |
| 20 | up | up | ADP | _ | 18 ripped | compound:prt |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 air | case |
| 22 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 air | det |
| 23 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 ripped | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 told | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 told | cc |
| 26 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 told | nsubj:pass |
| 27 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 told | aux |
| 28 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 29 told | aux:pass |
| 29 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 clung | conj |
| 30 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 36 _ | mark |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 _ | nsubj |
| 32 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 _ | cop |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 _ | det |
| 34 | _ | _ | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 _ | amod |
| 35 | raconteur | raconteur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 _ | compound |
| 36 | _ | _ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 told | ccomp |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 repute | case |
| 38 | repute | repute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 _ | nmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 clung | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cling | past | something | man | manner | still | vn cling-22.5 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to he=Co-Theme | ||
| 2 | rip up | past | man | you | with a air | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent you=Patient with air=Instrument | |||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | present · perfect · passive | I | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | |||||
| 4 | is a | past | man | a _ raconteur _ | of repute | tree rules |
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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