Peter Pan, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, sentence 151
“I am James Hook,” replied the voice, “captain of the _Jolly Roger_.”
Who acts: James Hook · What happens: be, reply · To what, where: James Hook, voice · 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 (James Hook), 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 Hook | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 Hook | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 Hook | cop |
| 4 | James | James | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Hook | compound |
| 5 | Hook | Hook | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 replied | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Hook | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 Hook | punct |
| 8 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 voice | det |
| 10 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 replied | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 captain | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 captain | punct |
| 13 | captain | captain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 voice | appos |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Roger | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Roger | det |
| 16 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 18 Roger | punct |
| 17 | Jolly | Jolly | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Roger | compound |
| 18 | Roger | Roger | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 captain | nmod |
| 19 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 18 Roger | punct |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 Roger | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 Roger | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | James Hook = hook | James Hook | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | James Hook | the voice | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent voice=Topic |
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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