Peter Pan, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, sentence 218
Farther from the rock Starkey was pressing Slightly and the twins hard.
Who acts: Starkey · What happens: press · To what, where: rock
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 (Starkey), 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 | Farther | far | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 7 pressing | advmod |
| 2 | from | from | ADP | _ | 4 rock | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 rock | det |
| 4 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pressing | obl |
| 5 | Starkey | Starkey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 pressing | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 pressing | aux |
| 7 | pressing | press | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | Slightly | slightly | ADV | _ | 7 pressing | advmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 hard | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 twins | det |
| 11 | twins | twin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 hard | nsubj |
| 12 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 pressing | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 pressing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | press | past · progressive | Starkey | the rock | far, slightly property | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=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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