Peter Pan, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, sentence 137
“You called over the water to us to let her go,” said Starkey.
Who acts: You, bo’sun, Starkey · What happens: call, let, go, say · To what, where: us, water, bo’sun · 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 (You, bo’sun, Starkey), 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 | _ | 3 called | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 called | nsubj |
| 3 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 said | advcl |
| 4 | over | over | ADP | _ | 6 water | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 water | det |
| 6 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 called | obl |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 us | case |
| 8 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 called | obl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 let | mark |
| 10 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 called | advcl |
| 11 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 let | obj |
| 12 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 let | xcomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 called | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 called | punct |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | Starkey | Starkey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 said | nsubj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call in a quote | past | You | us | the water | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to we=Recipient | |||
| 2 | let in a quote | to-infinitive | You not said here | bo’sun = bo'sun | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | go in a quote | infinitive | bo’sun = bo'sun not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | Starkey | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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