Peter Pan, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, sentence 120
“We will seize the children and carry them to the boat: the boys we will make walk the plank, and Wendy shall be our mother.”
Who acts: We, boys, Wendy · What happens: seize, carry, make, walk, be · To what, where: children, boat, boys, plank, mother
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 (We, boys, Wendy), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 seize | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 seize | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 seize | aux |
| 4 | seize | seize | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 children | det |
| 6 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 seize | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 carry | cc |
| 8 | carry | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 seize | conj |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 carry | obj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 boat | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 boat | det |
| 12 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 carry | obl |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 boys | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 boys | det |
| 15 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 boat | appos |
| 16 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 make | nsubj |
| 17 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 make | aux |
| 18 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 boys | acl:relcl |
| 19 | walk | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 make | xcomp |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 plank | det |
| 21 | plank | plank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 walk | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 mother | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 mother | cc |
| 24 | Wendy | Wendy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 mother | nsubj |
| 25 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 mother | aux |
| 26 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 28 mother | cop |
| 27 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 mother | nmod:poss |
| 28 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 seize | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 seize | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 seize | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seize in a quote | future | We | the children | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Theme | ||||
| 2 | carry in a quote | present | We not said here | children = child | the boat | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to boat=Destination | |||
| 3 | make in a quote | future | we | the boys not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | walk in a quote | infinitive | the boys not said here | the plank | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme plank=Trajectory | ||||
| 5 | is a in a quote | shall | Wendy | our mother | tree rules |
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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