Peter Pan, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, sentence 133
He had a playful humour at moments, and they thought this was one of the moments.
Who acts: Hook, Smee, this · What happens: have, think, be · To what, where: playful humour, one · 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 (Hook, Smee, this), 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 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 humour | det |
| 4 | playful | playful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 humour | amod |
| 5 | humour | humour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | obj |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 moments | case |
| 7 | moments | moment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 had | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 thought | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 thought | cc |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 thought | nsubj |
| 11 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 had | conj |
| 12 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 one | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 one | cop |
| 14 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 thought | ccomp |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 moments | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 moments | det |
| 17 | moments | moment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 one | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Hook | a playful humour | moment | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent humour=Patient | |||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | Smee | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | past | this | one | moment | tree rules |
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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