Peter Pan, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, sentence 12

The goals are at each end of the rainbow, and the keepers only are allowed to use their hands.

Who acts: goals, keepers · What happens: be, allow, use · To what, where: end, keepers, hands

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 (goals, keepers), 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 goals	det
2	goals	goal	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 end	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 end	cop
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 end	case
5	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	6 end	det
6	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 rainbow	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 rainbow	det
9	rainbow	rainbow	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 end	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 allowed	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 allowed	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 keepers	det
13	keepers	keeper	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 allowed	nsubj:pass
14	only	only	ADV	_	16 allowed	advmod
15	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 allowed	aux:pass
16	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 end	conj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 use	mark
18	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 allowed	xcomp
19	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 hands	nmod:poss
20	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 use	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 end	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the goals		at each end	of the rainbow	tree rules
2	allow	present · passive		the keepers			vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
3	use not said to happen	to-infinitive	the keepers not said here	keepers's hands			vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=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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