Peter Pan, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, sentence 153
“Brimstone and gall,” the voice retorted, “say that again, and I’ll cast anchor in you.”
Who acts: Brimstone · What happens: retort, say, 'll, cast · To what, where: that, cast anchor · 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 (Brimstone), 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 | _ | 2 Brimstone | punct |
| 2 | Brimstone | brimstone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 retorted | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 gall | cc |
| 4 | gall | gall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Brimstone | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Brimstone | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Brimstone | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 voice | det |
| 8 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 retorted | nsubj |
| 9 | retorted | retort | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 say | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 say | punct |
| 12 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 retorted | ccomp |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 say | obj |
| 14 | again | again | ADV | _ | 12 say | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 ’ll | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 ’ll | cc |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 ’ll | nsubj |
| 18 | ’ll | 'll | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 retorted | conj |
| 19 | cast | cast | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 anchor | amod |
| 20 | anchor | anchor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 ’ll | obj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 you | case |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 ’ll | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 retorted | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 retorted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | retort speech: other | past | Brimstone and gall | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | infinitive | that | again | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent that=Topic | ||||
| 3 | 'll in a quote | present | Brimstone and gall = brimstone | cast anchor | in you | tree rules | |||
| 4 | cast in a quote | participle | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: 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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