Peter Pan, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE, sentence 11
Let us pretend to lie here among the sugar-cane and watch them as they steal by in single file, each with his hand on his dagger.
Who acts: you, us, boys · What happens: let, pretend, lie, watch, steal · To what, where: us, sugar cane, boys
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 (you, us, boys), 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 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Let | obj |
| 3 | pretend | pretend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Let | xcomp |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 lie | mark |
| 5 | lie | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 pretend | xcomp |
| 6 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 lie | advmod |
| 7 | among | among | ADP | _ | 11 cane | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 cane | det |
| 9 | sugar | sugar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cane | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 sugar | punct |
| 11 | cane | cane | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lie | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 watch | cc |
| 13 | watch | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 lie | conj |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 watch | obj |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 steal | mark |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 steal | nsubj |
| 17 | steal | steal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 watch | advcl |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 file | case |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 file | case |
| 20 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 file | amod |
| 21 | file | file | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 steal | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 each | punct |
| 23 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 file | appos |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 hand | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 hand | nmod:poss |
| 26 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 each | nmod |
| 27 | on | on | ADP | _ | 29 dagger | case |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 dagger | nmod:poss |
| 29 | dagger | dagger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 hand | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | us | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | pretend | infinitive | us not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | lie | to-infinitive | us not said here | the sugar cane; here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent among cane=Location | ||||
| 4 | watch | infinitive | us not said here | boys = boy | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 5 | steal | present | boys = boy | by single file | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by file=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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