Peter Pan, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE, sentence 96
“Put back that pistol first,” it said threateningly.
Who acts: pistol · What happens: put back, say · To what, where: pistol · 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 (pistol), 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 | _ | 2 Put | punct |
| 2 | Put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 3 | back | back | ADV | _ | 2 Put | advmod |
| 4 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 pistol | det |
| 5 | pistol | pistol | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Put | obj |
| 6 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 2 Put | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Put | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Put | punct |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 said | nsubj |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | threateningly | threateningly | ADV | _ | 10 said | advmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put back in a quote | infinitive | that pistol | first property | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent pistol=Goal | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | pistol | threateningly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/6/96/