Peter Pan, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, sentence 217
The corkscrew of Smee got Tootles in the fourth rib, but he was himself pinked in turn by Curly.
Who acts: corkscrew, Curly · What happens: get, pink · To what, where: Tootles, fourth rib, flash, turn
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 (corkscrew, Curly), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 corkscrew | det |
| 2 | corkscrew | corkscrew | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 got | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Smee | case |
| 4 | Smee | Smee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 corkscrew | nmod |
| 5 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Tootles | tootle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 got | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 rib | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 rib | det |
| 9 | fourth | fourth | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 10 rib | amod |
| 10 | rib | rib | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 got | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 pinked | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 pinked | cc |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 pinked | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 pinked | aux:pass |
| 15 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 16 pinked | nsubj |
| 16 | pinked | pink | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 got | conj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 turn | case |
| 18 | turn | turn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 pinked | obl |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 Curly | case |
| 20 | Curly | Curly | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 pinked | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | the corkscrew of Smee | Tootles | the fourth rib | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tootle=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | pink | past · passive | Curly | flash | turn | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location subject=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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