Peter Pan, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, sentence 141
“It is passing queer,” Smee said, and they all fidgeted uncomfortably.
Who acts: order, Smee · What happens: pass, say, fidget · To what, where: queer, Smee · 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 (order, Smee), 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 passing | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 passing | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 passing | aux |
| 4 | passing | pass | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 said | ccomp |
| 5 | queer | queer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 passing | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 passing | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 passing | punct |
| 8 | Smee | Smee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 fidgeted | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 fidgeted | cc |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 fidgeted | nsubj |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 fidgeted | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | fidgeted | fidget | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 said | ccomp |
| 15 | uncomfortably | uncomfortably | ADV | _ | 14 fidgeted | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass in a quote | present · progressive | order | queer | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme queer=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Smee | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | fidget | participle · passive | Smee | uncomfortably property | 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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