Peter Pan, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, sentence 201
In a moment Hook was himself again, and Smee and Starkey were his faithful henchmen.
Who acts: Smee · What happens: be · To what, where: Hook, moment Hook
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 (Smee), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 Hook | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 Hook | det |
| 3 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Hook | compound |
| 4 | Hook | hook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 were | obl |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 himself | cop |
| 6 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 Hook | nmod |
| 7 | again | again | ADV | _ | 6 himself | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Hook | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 Smee | cc |
| 10 | Smee | Smee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 were | nsubj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 Starkey | cc |
| 12 | Starkey | Starkey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Smee | conj |
| 13 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 henchmen | nmod:poss |
| 15 | faithful | faithful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 henchmen | amod |
| 16 | henchmen | henchman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 were | nsubj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 were | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Hook | again | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | past | Smee and Starkey | a moment Hook | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hook=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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