Peter Pan, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, sentence 166
In his dark nature there was a touch of the feminine, as in all the great pirates, and it sometimes gave him intuitions.
Who acts: feminine · What happens: be, give · To what, where: touch, dark nature, intuitions, codfish
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 (feminine), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 nature | case |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 nature | nmod:poss |
| 3 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 nature | amod |
| 4 | nature | nature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 touch | obl |
| 5 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 6 was | expl |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 touch | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 touch | det |
| 8 | touch | touch | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 feminine | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 feminine | det |
| 11 | feminine | feminine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 touch | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 pirates | punct |
| 13 | as | as | ADP | _ | 18 pirates | case |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 pirates | case |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 pirates | det:predet |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 pirates | det |
| 17 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 pirates | amod |
| 18 | pirates | pirate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 touch | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 gave | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 gave | cc |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 gave | nsubj |
| 22 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 23 gave | advmod |
| 23 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 touch | acl:relcl |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 gave | iobj |
| 25 | intuitions | intuition | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 gave | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 touch | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | a touch and all great pirates | codfish's dark nature | of the feminine | tree rules | |||
| 2 | give | past | feminine | intuitions | codfish | sometimes property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient intuition=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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