Peter Pan, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, sentence 143
“Spirit that haunts this dark lagoon to-night,” he cried, “dost hear me?”
Who acts: Spirit · What happens: haunt, cry, do, hear · To what, where: dark lagoon, Spirit · 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 (Spirit), 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 haunts | punct |
| 2 | Spirit | Spirit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 haunts | nsubj |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 haunts | nsubj |
| 4 | haunts | haunt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 cried | advcl |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 lagoon | det |
| 6 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 lagoon | amod |
| 7 | lagoon | lagoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 haunts | obj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 night | case |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 to | punct |
| 10 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 haunts | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 haunts | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 haunts | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 cried | nsubj |
| 14 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 dost | punct |
| 16 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 dost | punct |
| 17 | dost | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 cried | conj |
| 18 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 dost | xcomp |
| 19 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 hear | obj |
| 20 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 14 cried | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | haunt in a quote | present | Spirit | this dark lagoon | night | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus lagoon=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | Spirit | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | do in a quote | present | Spirit not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | hear in a quote | infinitive | Spirit not said here | Spirit | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus |
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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