Peter Pan, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, sentence 197
Of course in his pride he was carrying the game too far, and the miscreants saw their chance.
Who acts: Hook, miscreants · What happens: carry, see, pride, chance · To what, where: game, chance
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 (Hook, miscreants), 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 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 5 pride | case |
| 2 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Of | fixed |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 pride | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 pride | nmod:poss |
| 5 | pride | pride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 carrying | obl |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 carrying | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 carrying | aux |
| 8 | carrying | carry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 game | det |
| 10 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 carrying | obj |
| 11 | too | too | ADV | _ | 12 far | advmod |
| 12 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 carrying | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 saw | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 saw | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 miscreants | det |
| 16 | miscreants | miscreant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 saw | nsubj |
| 17 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 carrying | conj |
| 18 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 chance | nmod:poss |
| 19 | chance | chance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 saw | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 carrying | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | past · progressive | Hook | the game | of Hook's pride; far property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent game=Theme of pride=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | see | past | the miscreants | miscreants's chance | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer chance=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | pride | Hook | nom pride «feeling transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 4 | chance | miscreants = miscreant | nom chance «state intransitive»: poss=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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