Peter Pan, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, sentence 158
Hook echoed blankly, and it was then, but not till then, that his proud spirit broke.
Who acts: Hook, quiver, proud spirit · What happens: echo, be, break
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, quiver, proud spirit), 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 | Hook | hook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 echoed | nsubj |
| 2 | echoed | echo | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | blankly | blankly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 echoed | xcomp |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 was | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 was | cc |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 was | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 echoed | parataxis |
| 8 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 was | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 broke | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 broke | cc |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 then | advmod |
| 12 | till | till | ADP | _ | 13 then | case |
| 13 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 broke | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 broke | punct |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 broke | mark |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 spirit | nmod:poss |
| 17 | proud | proud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 spirit | amod |
| 18 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 broke | nsubj |
| 19 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 echoed | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 echoed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | echo | past | Hook | blankly property | vn sound_existence-47.4 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | be | past | quiver | then | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | break | past | Hook's proud spirit | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
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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