Peter Pan, Chapter VI. THE LITTLE HOUSE, sentence 183

He snatched the hat off John’s head, knocked out the bottom, and put the hat on the roof.

Who acts: Peter · What happens: snatch off, knock out, put · To what, where: hat, bottom, roof

This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter VI. THE LITTLE HOUSE. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Peter), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 snatched	nsubj
2	snatched	snatch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 hat	det
4	hat	hat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 snatched	obj
5	off	off	ADP	_	2 snatched	compound:prt
6	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 head	nmod:poss
7	’s	's	PART	_	6 John	case
8	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 snatched	obl:unmarked
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 knocked	punct
10	knocked	knock	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 snatched	parataxis
11	out	out	ADP	_	10 knocked	compound:prt
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 bottom	det
13	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 knocked	obl:unmarked
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 put	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 put	cc
16	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 knocked	conj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 hat	det
18	hat	hat	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 put	obj
19	on	on	ADP	_	21 roof	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 roof	det
21	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 put	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 snatched	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	snatch off	past	Peter	the hat		John's head obl:unmarked	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hat=Theme
2	knock out	participle		the bottom			vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
3	put	infinitive		the hat	the roof		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent hat=Theme on roof=Destination

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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