Peter Pan, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE, sentence 109
The pirates disappeared among the trees, and in a moment their Captain and Smee were alone.
Who acts: pirates · What happens: disappear, be
This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pirates), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 pirates | det |
| 2 | pirates | pirate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 disappeared | nsubj |
| 3 | disappeared | disappear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | among | among | ADP | _ | 6 trees | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 trees | det |
| 6 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 disappeared | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 were | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 were | cc |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 moment | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 moment | det |
| 11 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 were | obl |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 Captain | nmod:poss |
| 13 | Captain | Captain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 moment | appos |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 Smee | cc |
| 15 | Smee | Smee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Captain | conj |
| 16 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 disappeared | conj |
| 17 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 16 were | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 disappeared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | disappear | past | the pirates | among the trees | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | be | past | the pirates not said here | moment | alone property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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