Peter Pan, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE, sentence 147
The pirates listened grimly, and then replaced the mushroom.
Who acts: pirates · What happens: listen, replace · To what, where: mushroom
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 listened | nsubj |
| 3 | listened | listen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | grimly | grimly | ADV | _ | 3 listened | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 replaced | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 replaced | cc |
| 7 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 replaced | advmod |
| 8 | replaced | replace | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 listened | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 mushroom | det |
| 10 | mushroom | mushroom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 replaced | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 listened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | listen | past | the pirates | grimly property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | replace | past | the pirates not said here | the mushroom | then | vn substitute-13.6.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mushroom=Co-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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