Peter Pan, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE, sentence 8
They were going round and round the island, but they did not meet because all were going at the same rate.
Who acts: beasts · What happens: go round, round, not meet, go · To what, where: island, same rate
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 (beasts), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 going | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 going | aux |
| 3 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | round | round | ADV | _ | 3 going | advmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 round | cc |
| 6 | round | round | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 going | conj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 island | det |
| 8 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 round | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 meet | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 meet | cc |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 meet | nsubj |
| 12 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 meet | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 meet | advmod |
| 14 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 going | conj |
| 15 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 18 going | mark |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 going | advmod |
| 17 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 going | aux |
| 18 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 meet | advcl |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 rate | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 rate | det |
| 21 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 rate | amod |
| 22 | rate | rate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 going | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 going | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go round | past · progressive | beasts = beast | round property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | round | infinitive | beasts = beast not said here | the island | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent island=Patient | ||||
| 3 | not meet | past · do-support | beasts = beast | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | go | past · progressive | beasts = beast not said here | the same rate | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at rate=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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