Peter Pan, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, sentence 162

They were his dogs snapping at him, but, tragic figure though he had become, he scarcely heeded them.

Who acts: men, dogs, codfish · What happens: be, snap, become, heed · To what, where: dogs, tragic figure, men

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 (men, dogs, codfish), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 dogs	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 dogs	cop
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 dogs	nmod:poss
4	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	snapping	snap	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 dogs	acl
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 him	case
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 snapping	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 heeded	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 heeded	cc
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 figure	punct
11	tragic	tragic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 figure	amod
12	figure	figure	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 heeded	parataxis
13	though	though	SCONJ	_	16 become	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 become	nsubj
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 become	aux
16	become	become	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 figure	acl:relcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 figure	punct
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 heeded	nsubj
19	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	_	20 heeded	advmod
20	heeded	heed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 dogs	conj
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 heeded	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 dogs	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	men = man	codfish's dogs		tree rules
2	snap	gerund	codfish's dogs not said here		at codfish	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at he=Location
3	become	past · perfect	codfish	tragic figure not said here		vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Patient figure=Result
4	heed	past	codfish	men = man	scarcely property	vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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