Peter Pan, Chapter XIV. THE PIRATE SHIP, sentence 2
She was the cannibal of the seas, and scarce needed that watchful eye, for she floated immune in the horror of her name.
Who acts: Creek, scarce · What happens: be, need, float, name · To what, where: cannibal, watchful eye, horror
This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XIV. THE PIRATE SHIP. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Creek, scarce), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 cannibal | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 cannibal | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 cannibal | det |
| 4 | cannibal | cannibal | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 seas | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 seas | det |
| 7 | seas | sea | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 cannibal | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 needed | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 needed | cc |
| 10 | scarce | scarce | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 needed | nsubj |
| 11 | needed | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 cannibal | parataxis |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 eye | mark |
| 13 | watchful | watchful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 eye | amod |
| 14 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 needed | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 floated | punct |
| 16 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 18 floated | mark |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 floated | nsubj |
| 18 | floated | float | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 needed | conj |
| 19 | immune | immune | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 floated | xcomp |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 horror | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 horror | det |
| 22 | horror | horror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 floated | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 name | case |
| 24 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 name | nmod:poss |
| 25 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 horror | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 cannibal | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Creek | the cannibal | of the seas | tree rules | |||
| 2 | need | past | scarce | watchful eye | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot eye=Theme | ||||
| 3 | float | past | Creek | the horror of Creek's name | immune property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in horror=Trajectory | |||
| 4 | name | Creek | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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