Peter Pan, Chapter I. PETER BREAKS THROUGH, sentence 70
On these magic shores children at play are for ever beaching their coracles.
Who acts: children · What happens: shore, beach · To what, where: magic, coracles
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 (children), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 magic | case |
| 2 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 magic | det |
| 3 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shores | obl |
| 4 | shores | shore | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 beaching | nsubj |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 play | case |
| 7 | play | play | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 children | nmod |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 beaching | aux |
| 9 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 11 beaching | mark |
| 10 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 11 beaching | advmod |
| 11 | beaching | beach | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 shores | ccomp |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 coracles | nmod:poss |
| 13 | coracles | coracle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 beaching | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 shores | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shore | present | this magic | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | beach | present · progressive | children at play | children's coracles | ever | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent coracle=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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