Peter Pan, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, sentence 216
In the confusion some struck at their own side.
Who acts: some · What happens: strike · To what, where: confusion
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 (some), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 confusion | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 confusion | det |
| 3 | confusion | confusion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 struck | obl |
| 4 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 struck | nsubj |
| 5 | struck | strike | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 side | case |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 side | nmod:poss |
| 8 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 side | amod |
| 9 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 struck | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 struck | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | strike | participle | some | the confusion | at Pirates's own side | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at side=Patient |
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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