Peter Pan, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, sentence 114

Smee, much impressed, gazed at the bird as the nest was borne past, but the more suspicious Starkey said, “If she is a mother, perhaps she is hanging about here to help Peter.”

Who acts: suspicious Starkey, Starkey · What happens: gaze, bear, say, be, hang, help · To what, where: nest, mother, Peter · 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 (suspicious Starkey, Starkey), 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	Smee	Smee	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 impressed	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 impressed	punct
3	much	much	ADV	_	4 impressed	advmod
4	impressed	impressed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 gazed	punct
6	gazed	gaze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 impressed	conj
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 bird	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 bird	det
9	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gazed	obl
10	as	as	SCONJ	_	14 borne	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 nest	det
12	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 borne	nsubj:pass
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 borne	aux:pass
14	borne	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 gazed	advcl
15	past	past	ADV	_	14 borne	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 said	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 said	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Starkey	det
19	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	20 suspicious	advmod
20	suspicious	suspicious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 Starkey	amod
21	Starkey	Starkey	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 said	nsubj
22	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 impressed	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 mother	punct
24	“	"	PUNCT	_	29 mother	punct
25	If	if	SCONJ	_	29 mother	mark
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 mother	nsubj
27	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 mother	cop
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 mother	det
29	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 said	ccomp
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 hanging	punct
31	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	34 hanging	advmod
32	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 hanging	nsubj
33	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 hanging	aux
34	hanging	hang	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 mother	parataxis
35	about	about	ADP	_	36 here	case
36	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	34 hanging	obl
37	to	to	PART	_	38 help	mark
38	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 hanging	advcl
39	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 help	obj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 impressed	punct
41	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 impressed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	gaze	participle				at the bird	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at bird=Theme
2	bear	past · passive		the nest		past property	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
3	say speech: assert	past	the suspicious Starkey				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is a a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	Starkey	a mother			tree rules
5	hang in a quote	present · progressive	Starkey			perhaps property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent about here=Location
6	help in a quote	to-infinitive	Starkey not said here		Peter		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peter=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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