Peter Pan, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, sentence 111

The nest must have fallen into the water, but would the mother desert her eggs?

Who acts: nest, mother · What happens: fall, desert · To what, where: water, eggs

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 (nest, mother), 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 nest	det
2	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fallen	nsubj
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 fallen	aux
4	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 fallen	aux
5	fallen	fall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	into	into	ADP	_	8 water	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 water	det
8	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fallen	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 desert	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 desert	cc
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 desert	aux
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 mother	det
13	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 desert	nsubj
14	desert	desert	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 fallen	parataxis
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 eggs	nmod:poss
16	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 desert	obj
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 fallen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	must · perfect	the nest					into the water result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into water=Result
2	desert	would	the mother	mother's eggs					vn leave-51.2-1 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=Theme egg=Source

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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