Peter Pan, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, sentence 14

But the moment the children tried to join in they had to play by themselves, for the mermaids immediately disappeared.

Who acts: moment, children, mermaids · What happens: try, join, have, play, disappear

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 (moment, children, mermaids), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 tried	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 moment	det
3	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tried	nsubj
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 children	det
5	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 moment	conj
6	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 join	mark
8	join	join	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 tried	xcomp
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 had	case
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 had	nsubj
11	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 join	ccomp
12	to	to	PART	_	13 play	mark
13	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 had	xcomp
14	by	by	ADP	_	15 themselves	case
15	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	13 play	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 mermaids	punct
17	for	for	ADP	_	19 mermaids	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 mermaids	det
19	mermaids	mermaid	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 disappeared	nsubj
20	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	21 disappeared	advmod
21	disappeared	disappear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 play	advcl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 tried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	try	past	the moment and the children		vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	join not said to happen	to-infinitive	the moment and the children not said here		tree rules
3	have	past	children = child		tree rules
4	play	to-infinitive	children = child not said here	by children = child	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	disappear	past	the mermaids	immediately property	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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