Peter Pan, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, sentence 10

She was often at the lagoon, however, on sunny days after rain, when the mermaids come up in extraordinary numbers to play with their bubbles.

Who acts: Wendy, mermaids · What happens: be, come up, play · To what, where: lagoon, extraordinary numbers

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 (Wendy, mermaids), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 lagoon	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 lagoon	cop
3	often	often	ADV	_	6 lagoon	advmod
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 lagoon	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 lagoon	det
6	lagoon	lagoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 however	punct
8	however	however	ADV	_	6 lagoon	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 days	punct
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 days	case
11	sunny	sunny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 days	amod
12	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 lagoon	parataxis
13	after	after	ADP	_	14 rain	case
14	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 days	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 come	punct
16	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	19 come	advmod
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 mermaids	det
18	mermaids	mermaid	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 come	nsubj
19	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 lagoon	conj
20	up	up	ADV	_	19 come	advmod
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 numbers	case
22	extraordinary	extraordinary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 numbers	amod
23	numbers	number	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 come	obl
24	to	to	PART	_	25 play	mark
25	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 come	advcl
26	with	with	ADP	_	28 bubbles	case
27	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 bubbles	nmod:poss
28	bubbles	bubble	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 play	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 lagoon	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	Wendy	the lagoon	however, often property	tree rules
2	come up	present	the mermaids	extraordinary numbers		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in number=Location
3	play	to-infinitive	the mermaids not said here		with mermaids's bubbles	vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with bubble=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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