Peter Pan, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, sentence 212
There was fierce struggle, in which the cutlass was torn from the pirate’s grasp.
Who acts: fierce struggle, pirate · What happens: be, tear, grasp · To what, where: cutlass, fierce struggle
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 (fierce struggle, pirate), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | fierce | fierce | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 struggle | amod |
| 4 | struggle | struggle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 torn | punct |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 which | case |
| 7 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 torn | obl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 cutlass | det |
| 9 | cutlass | cutlass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 torn | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 torn | aux:pass |
| 11 | torn | tear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 struggle | acl:relcl |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 grasp | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 pirate | det |
| 14 | pirate | pirate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 grasp | nmod:poss |
| 15 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 14 pirate | case |
| 16 | grasp | grasp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 torn | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | fierce struggle | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | tear | past · passive | the cutlass | fierce struggle | from the pirate's grasp | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient from grasp=Co-Patient | |||
| 3 | grasp | the pirate | nom grasp «cognition transitive»: 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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