Peter Pan, Chapter XVI. THE RETURN HOME, sentence 10
Captain Pan calculated, after consulting the ship’s chart, that if this weather lasted they should strike the Azores about the 21st of June, after which it would save time to fly.
Who acts: Captain, weather, orders · What happens: calculate, consult, last, strike, save, fly · To what, where: chart, Azores, ship
This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XVI. THE RETURN HOME. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Captain, weather, orders), 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 | Captain | Captain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 calculated | nsubj |
| 2 | Pan | Pan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Captain | flat |
| 3 | calculated | calculate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 consulting | punct |
| 5 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 6 consulting | mark |
| 6 | consulting | consult | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 calculated | advcl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 ship | det |
| 8 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 chart | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 8 ship | case |
| 10 | chart | chart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 consulting | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 strike | punct |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 strike | mark |
| 13 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 16 lasted | mark |
| 14 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 weather | det |
| 15 | weather | weather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 lasted | nsubj |
| 16 | lasted | last | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 strike | advcl |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 strike | nsubj |
| 18 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 strike | aux |
| 19 | strike | strike | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 consulting | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Azores | det |
| 21 | Azores | Azore | PROPN | Number=Plur | 19 strike | obj |
| 22 | about | about | ADP | _ | 24 21st | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 21st | det |
| 24 | 21st | 21st | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | 19 strike | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 June | case |
| 26 | June | June | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 21st | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 save | punct |
| 28 | after | after | ADP | _ | 29 which | case |
| 29 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 save | obl |
| 30 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 save | nsubj |
| 31 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 save | aux |
| 32 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 strike | parataxis |
| 33 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 save | obj |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 fly | mark |
| 35 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 time | acl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 calculated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | calculate | past | Captain | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | consult | gerund | Captain not said here | the ship's chart | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chart=Theme | ||||
| 3 | last a condition, not said to happen | past | this weather | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | strike | should | orders = order | the Azores | about the 21st of June | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent azore=Instrument | |||
| 5 | save | would | weather | time | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | fly | to-infinitive | weather not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | chart | the ship | nom chart «communication transitive»: poss=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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