Peter Pan, Chapter I. PETER BREAKS THROUGH, sentence 67

John’s, for instance, had a lagoon with flamingoes flying over it at which John was shooting, while Michael, who was very small, had a flamingo with lagoons flying over it.

Who acts: John, flamingoes, Michael, lagoons · What happens: have, fly, shoot, be · To what, where: lagoon, Michael, flamingo

This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter I. PETER BREAKS THROUGH. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (John, flamingoes, Michael, lagoons), 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	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 had	nsubj
2	’s	's	PART	_	1 John	case
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 instance	punct
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 instance	case
5	instance	instance	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 John	appos
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 John	punct
7	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 lagoon	det
9	lagoon	lagoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 had	obj
10	with	with	ADP	_	11 flamingoes	case
11	flamingoes	flamingoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 lagoon	nmod
12	flying	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 flamingoes	acl
13	over	over	ADP	_	14 it	case
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 flying	obl
15	at	at	SCONJ	_	19 shooting	mark
16	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 shooting	nsubj
17	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 shooting	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 shooting	aux
19	shooting	shoot	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 flying	advcl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 Michael	punct
21	while	while	SCONJ	_	22 Michael	mark
22	Michael	Michael	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 shooting	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 small	punct
24	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 small	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 small	cop
26	very	very	ADV	_	27 small	advmod
27	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 Michael	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 had	punct
29	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 had	conj
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 flamingo	det
31	flamingo	flamingo	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 had	obj
32	with	with	ADP	_	33 lagoons	case
33	lagoons	lagoon	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 flamingo	nmod
34	flying	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	33 lagoons	acl
35	over	over	ADP	_	36 it	case
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 flying	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	John	a lagoon		with flamingoes	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lagoon=Patient
2	fly	gerund	flamingoes not said here		lagoon		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over it=Location
3	shoot	past · progressive		Michael			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	is	past	Michael			small property	tree rules
5	have	past	John not said here	a flamingo		with lagoons	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flamingo=Patient
6	fly	gerund	lagoons not said here		lagoon		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over it=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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