Peter Pan, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, sentence 2

But just before they go on fire you see the lagoon.

Who acts: colours, you · What happens: go, see · To what, where: fire, lagoon

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 (colours, you), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 go	cc
2	just	just	ADV	_	5 go	advmod
3	before	before	SCONJ	_	5 go	mark
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 go	nsubj
5	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	on	on	ADP	_	7 fire	case
7	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 go	obl
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 see	nsubj
9	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 go	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 lagoon	det
11	lagoon	lagoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 see	obj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	present	colours = colour			fire			vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on fire=Location
2	see	present	you	the lagoon					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lagoon=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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