Peter Pan, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, sentence 134
“That is all right, captain,” Smee answered complacently; “we let her go.”
Who acts: That, Smee, we, Lily · What happens: be, answer, let, go · To what, where: Lily · 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 (That, Smee, we, Lily), 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 | _ | 5 right | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 right | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 right | cop |
| 4 | all | all | ADV | _ | 5 right | advmod |
| 5 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 answered | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 captain | punct |
| 7 | captain | captain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 right | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 right | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 right | punct |
| 10 | Smee | Smee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 answered | nsubj |
| 11 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | complacently | complacently | ADV | _ | 11 answered | advmod |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 let | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 let | punct |
| 15 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 let | nsubj |
| 16 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 answered | conj |
| 17 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 let | obj |
| 18 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 let | xcomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 go | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | That | all, right property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | Smee | complacently property | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | let in a quote | past | we | Lily | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | go in a quote | infinitive | Lily not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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