Peter Pan, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, sentence 206
He leaped as he spoke, and simultaneously came the gay voice of Peter.
Who acts: Hook · What happens: leap, speak, come · To what, where: gay voice · 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 (Hook), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 leaped | nsubj |
| 2 | leaped | leap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 spoke | mark |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 spoke | nsubj |
| 5 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 leaped | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 came | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 came | cc |
| 8 | simultaneously | simultaneously | ADV | _ | 9 came | advmod |
| 9 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 leaped | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 voice | det |
| 11 | gay | gay | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 voice | amod |
| 12 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 came | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Peter | case |
| 14 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 voice | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 leaped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leap | past | Hook | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | speak speech: other | past | Hook | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | come | past | Hook not said here | the gay voice of Peter | simultaneously property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location voice=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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