Peter Pan, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, sentence 107
“I heard nothing,” said Starkey, raising the lantern over the waters, and as the pirates looked they saw a strange sight.
Who acts: Starkey, pirates · What happens: hear, say, raise, look, see · To what, where: nothing, lantern, waters, strange sight · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Starkey, pirates), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 heard | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 heard | nsubj |
| 3 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | ccomp |
| 4 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 heard | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 heard | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 heard | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Starkey | Starkey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 raising | punct |
| 10 | raising | raise | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 said | advcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 lantern | det |
| 12 | lantern | lantern | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 raising | obj |
| 13 | over | over | ADP | _ | 15 waters | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 waters | det |
| 15 | waters | water | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 raising | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 looked | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 looked | cc |
| 18 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 21 looked | mark |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 pirates | det |
| 20 | pirates | pirate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 looked | nsubj |
| 21 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | parataxis |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 saw | nsubj |
| 23 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 looked | conj |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 sight | det |
| 25 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 sight | amod |
| 26 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 saw | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear in a quote | past | Starkey | nothing | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Starkey | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | raise | gerund | Starkey not said here | the lantern | the waters | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent lantern=Theme over water=Destination | |||
| 4 | look | past | the pirates | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | see | past | Pirates = pirate | a strange sight | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sight=Stimulus |
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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