Peter Pan, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, sentence 1

If you shut your eyes and are a lucky one, you may see at times a shapeless pool of lovely pale colours suspended in the darkness; then if you squeeze your eyes tighter, the pool begins to take shape, and the colours become so vivid that with another squeeze they must go on fire.

Who acts: you, pool, colours · What happens: shut, be, see, suspend, squeeze, begin · To what, where: eyes, lucky one, lovely pale colours, darkness, shape, fire

This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, pool, colours), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	3 shut	mark
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 shut	nsubj
3	shut	shut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 see	advcl
4	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 eyes	nmod:poss
5	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 shut	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 one	cc
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 one	cop
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 one	det
9	lucky	lucky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 one	amod
10	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shut	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 shut	punct
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 see	nsubj
13	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 see	aux
14	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
15	at	at	ADP	_	16 times	case
16	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 see	obl
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 pool	det
18	shapeless	shapeless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 pool	amod
19	pool	pool	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 times	nmod
20	of	of	ADP	_	23 colours	case
21	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 colours	amod
22	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 colours	amod
23	colours	colour	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 pool	nmod
24	suspended	suspend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 colours	acl
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 darkness	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 darkness	det
27	darkness	darkness	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 suspended	obl
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	39 begins	punct
29	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	39 begins	advmod
30	if	if	SCONJ	_	32 squeeze	mark
31	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	32 squeeze	nsubj
32	squeeze	squeeze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 begins	advcl
33	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 eyes	nmod:poss
34	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 squeeze	obj
35	tighter	tight	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	32 squeeze	xcomp
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 squeeze	punct
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 pool	det
38	pool	pool	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 begins	nsubj
39	begins	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 see	parataxis
40	to	to	PART	_	41 take	mark
41	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 begins	xcomp
42	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 take	obj
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 become	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 become	cc
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 colours	det
46	colours	colour	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 become	nsubj
47	become	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 begins	conj
48	so	so	ADV	_	49 vivid	advmod
49	vivid	vivid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 become	xcomp
50	that	that	SCONJ	_	56 go	mark
51	with	with	ADP	_	53 squeeze	case
52	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	53 squeeze	det
53	squeeze	squeeze	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 go	obl
54	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	56 go	nsubj
55	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	56 go	aux
56	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	49 vivid	advcl
57	on	on	ADP	_	58 fire	case
58	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 go	obl
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shut a condition, not said to happen	present	you	your eyes				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent eye=Patient
2	is a	present	you not said here	a lucky one				tree rules
3	see	may	you			time		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	suspend	participle		lovely pale colours not said here	the darkness			vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in darkness=Location
5	squeeze a condition, not said to happen	present	you	your eyes			tight property	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Theme
6	begin	present	the pool			then		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
7	take	to-infinitive	the pool not said here	shape				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shape=Theme
8	become	present	the colours				vivid property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
9	go	must	colours = colour		fire		with another squeeze	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with squeeze=Beneficiary

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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