Peter Pan, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, sentence 113
There was a break in his voice, as if for a moment he recalled innocent days when—but he brushed away this weakness with his hook.
Who acts: break · What happens: be, recall, brush away · To what, where: weakness
This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (break), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 break | det |
| 4 | break | break | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | nsubj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 voice | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 voice | nmod:poss |
| 7 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 break | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 recalled | punct |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 recalled | mark |
| 10 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 15 recalled | mark |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 moment | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 moment | det |
| 13 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 recalled | obl |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 recalled | nsubj |
| 15 | recalled | recall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 was | parataxis |
| 16 | innocent | innocent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 days | amod |
| 17 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 when | nsubj |
| 18 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 recalled | advmod |
| 19 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 brushed | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 brushed | cc |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 brushed | nsubj |
| 22 | brushed | brush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 recalled | conj |
| 23 | away | away | ADV | _ | 22 brushed | advmod |
| 24 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 weakness | det |
| 25 | weakness | weakness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 brushed | obj |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 hook | case |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 hook | nmod:poss |
| 28 | hook | hook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 brushed | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a break in break's voice | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | recall a condition, not said to happen | past | break | moment | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | brush away | past | break | this weakness | with break's hook; away property | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent weakness=Destination with hook=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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