Peter Pan, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, sentence 13
Sometimes a dozen of these games will be going on in the lagoon at a time, and it is quite a pretty sight.
Who acts: dozen, lagoon · What happens: go on, be · To what, where: lagoon, pretty sight
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 (dozen, lagoon), 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 | Sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 9 going | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 dozen | det |
| 3 | dozen | dozen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 going | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 games | case |
| 5 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 6 games | det |
| 6 | games | game | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 dozen | nmod |
| 7 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 going | aux |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 going | aux |
| 9 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 going | compound:prt |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 lagoon | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 lagoon | det |
| 13 | lagoon | lagoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 going | obl |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 time | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 time | det |
| 16 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 going | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 sight | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 sight | cc |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 sight | nsubj |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 sight | cop |
| 21 | quite | quite | DET | PronType=Ind | 24 sight | det:predet |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 sight | det |
| 23 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 sight | amod |
| 24 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 going | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 going | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go on | future · progressive | a dozen of this games | the lagoon | time | sometimes property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in lagoon=Location | ||
| 2 | is a | present | lagoon | quite pretty sight | 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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