Peter Pan, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, sentence 117
He was roused from this dejection by Smee’s eager voice.
Who acts: eager voice · What happens: rouse · To what, where: Hook, dejection
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 (eager voice), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 roused | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 roused | aux:pass |
| 3 | roused | rouse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 dejection | case |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 dejection | det |
| 6 | dejection | dejection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 roused | obl |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 voice | case |
| 8 | Smee | Smee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 voice | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 8 Smee | case |
| 10 | eager | eager | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 voice | amod |
| 11 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 roused | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 roused | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rouse | past · passive | Smee's eager voice | Hook | this dejection | vn stimulate-59.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient |
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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