Peter Pan, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE, sentence 159
We will leave the cake on the shore of the Mermaids’ Lagoon.
Who acts: We · What happens: leave · To what, where: cake, shore
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 (We), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 leave | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 leave | aux |
| 3 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 cake | det |
| 5 | cake | cake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 leave | obj |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 shore | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 shore | det |
| 8 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 leave | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Lagoon | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Mermaids | det |
| 11 | Mermaids | Mermaid | PROPN | Number=Plur | 13 Lagoon | nmod:poss |
| 12 | ’ | 's | PART | _ | 11 Mermaids | case |
| 13 | Lagoon | Lagoon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 shore | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 leave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | future | We | the cake | the shore of the Mermaids's Lagoon | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent cake=Theme on shore=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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