Peter Pan, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, sentence 209
“Then lam into the pirates.”
Who acts: you · What happens: lam · To what, where: pirates
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 (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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 lam | punct |
| 2 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 lam | advmod |
| 3 | lam | lam | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 pirates | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 pirates | det |
| 6 | pirates | pirate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 lam | obl |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lam | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 lam | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lam in a quote | imperative | you not said here | then | into the pirates result | vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent into pirate=Result |
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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