Peter Pan, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, sentence 119

“It is a princely scheme,” cried Hook, and at once it took practical shape in his great brain.

Who acts: nest, princely scheme, it · What happens: be, cry, take · To what, where: princely scheme, Hook, practical shape, great brain · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (nest, princely scheme, it), 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	_	6 scheme	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 scheme	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 scheme	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 scheme	det
5	princely	princely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 scheme	amod
6	scheme	scheme	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cried	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 scheme	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 scheme	punct
9	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	Hook	hook	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cried	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 took	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 took	cc
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 once	case
14	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	16 took	obl
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 took	nsubj
16	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 cried	conj
17	practical	practical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 shape	amod
18	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 took	obj
19	in	in	ADP	_	22 brain	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 brain	nmod:poss
21	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 brain	amod
22	brain	brain	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 took	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	nest	a princely scheme		tree rules
2	cry speech: express	past	a princely scheme	Hook		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hook=Topic
3	take	past	it	practical shape	Hook's great brain	vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent shape=Value in brain=Location

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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