Peter Pan, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, sentence 160
“Have we been captained all this time by a codfish!” they muttered.
Who acts: codfish, men · What happens: captain, mutter · To what, where: we · 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 (codfish, men), 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 | _ | 5 captained | punct |
| 2 | Have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 captained | aux |
| 3 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 captained | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 captained | aux:pass |
| 5 | captained | captain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 muttered | ccomp |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 time | det:predet |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 time | det |
| 8 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 captained | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 codfish | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 codfish | det |
| 11 | codfish | codfish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 captained | obl |
| 12 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 captained | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 captained | punct |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 muttered | nsubj |
| 15 | muttered | mutter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 muttered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | captain in a quote | present · perfect · passive | a codfish | we | time | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Beneficiary | |||
| 2 | mutter speech: express | past | men = man | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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