Peter Pan, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, sentence 215
Here and there a head bobbed up in the water, and there was a flash of steel followed by a cry or a whoop.
Who acts: head, flash, steel · What happens: bob up, be, follow, flash · To what, where: water, steel
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 (head, flash, steel), 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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 bobbed | advmod |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 bobbed | cc |
| 3 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 6 bobbed | expl |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 head | det |
| 5 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bobbed | nsubj |
| 6 | bobbed | bob | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 bobbed | compound:prt |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 water | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 water | det |
| 10 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bobbed | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 was | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 was | cc |
| 13 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 14 was | expl |
| 14 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 bobbed | parataxis |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 flash | det |
| 16 | flash | flash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 was | nsubj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 steel | case |
| 18 | steel | steel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 flash | nmod |
| 19 | followed | follow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 steel | acl |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 cry | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 cry | det |
| 22 | cry | cry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 followed | obl |
| 23 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 25 whoop | cc |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 whoop | det |
| 25 | whoop | whoop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 cry | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 bobbed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bob up | participle | a head | the water; here; there | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in water=Location | ||||
| 2 | be | past | a flash of steel | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | follow | participle | steel not said here | by a cry or a whoop | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by cry=Location | ||||
| 4 | flash | steel | nom flash «event intransitive»: of=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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