Peter Pan, Chapter VI. THE LITTLE HOUSE, sentence 52
“Oh, dastard hand,” Peter said, and he raised the arrow to use it as a dagger.
Who acts: Peter · What happens: say, raise, use · To what, where: arrow, hand · Speech: someone speaks here
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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 hand | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 4 dastard | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | dastard | dastard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 hand | amod |
| 5 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 hand | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 hand | punct |
| 8 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 raised | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 raised | cc |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 raised | nsubj |
| 13 | raised | raise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | ccomp |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 arrow | det |
| 15 | arrow | arrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 raised | obj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 use | mark |
| 17 | use | use | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 arrow | acl |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 use | obj |
| 19 | as | as | ADP | _ | 21 dagger | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 dagger | det |
| 21 | dagger | dagger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 use | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Peter | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | raise | past | Peter | the arrow | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arrow=Theme | ||||
| 3 | use | to-infinitive | Peter not said here | hand | as a dagger | vn spend_time-104 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent it=Duration as dagger=Attribute |
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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