Peter Pan, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, sentence 11
The bubbles of many colours made in rainbow water they treat as balls, hitting them gaily from one to another with their tails, and trying to keep them in the rainbow till they burst.
Who acts: bubbles · What happens: make, treat, hit, try, keep, burst · To what, where: many colours, rainbow water, bubbles, rainbow
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 (bubbles), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 bubbles | det |
| 2 | bubbles | bubble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 treat | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 colours | case |
| 4 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 colours | amod |
| 5 | colours | colour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 bubbles | nmod |
| 6 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 colours | acl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 water | case |
| 8 | rainbow | rainbow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 water | compound |
| 9 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 made | obl |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 treat | nsubj |
| 11 | treat | treat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 13 balls | case |
| 13 | balls | ball | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 treat | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 hitting | punct |
| 15 | hitting | hit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 treat | advcl |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 hitting | obj |
| 17 | gaily | gaily | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 hitting | xcomp |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 one | case |
| 19 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 hitting | obl |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 another | case |
| 21 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 19 one | nmod |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 tails | case |
| 23 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 tails | nmod:poss |
| 24 | tails | tail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 hitting | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 trying | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 trying | cc |
| 27 | trying | try | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 treat | advcl |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 keep | mark |
| 29 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 trying | xcomp |
| 30 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 keep | obj |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 rainbow | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 rainbow | det |
| 33 | rainbow | rainbow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 keep | obl |
| 34 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 36 burst | mark |
| 35 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 burst | nsubj |
| 36 | burst | burst | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 keep | advcl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 treat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | participle | many colours not said here | rainbow water | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 2 | treat | present | the bubbles of many colours | as balls | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent as ball=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | hit | gerund | the bubbles of many colours not said here | bubbles = bubble | from one to another; with bubbles's tails; gaily property | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent they=Patient with tail=Instrument | |||
| 4 | try | gerund | the bubbles of many colours not said here | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | keep not said to happen | to-infinitive | the bubbles of many colours not said here | bubbles = bubble | the rainbow | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Theme in rainbow=Location | |||
| 6 | burst | present | bubbles = bubble | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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