Peter Pan, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE, sentence 160
These boys are always swimming about there, playing with the mermaids.
Who acts: boys · What happens: swim, play
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 (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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 boys | det |
| 2 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 swimming | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 swimming | aux |
| 4 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 5 swimming | advmod |
| 5 | swimming | swim | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | about | about | ADV | _ | 7 there | advmod |
| 7 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 swimming | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 playing | punct |
| 9 | playing | play | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 swimming | conj |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 mermaids | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 mermaids | det |
| 12 | mermaids | mermaid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 playing | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 swimming | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swim | present · progressive | this boys | there | always property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | play | gerund | this boys not said here | with the mermaids | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with mermaid=Co-Agent |
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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