Peter Pan, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, sentence 224

Strangely, it was not in the water that they met.

Who acts: circle, others · What happens: not be, meet · To what, where: water

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 (circle, others), 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	Strangely	strangely	ADV	_	8 water	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Strangely	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 water	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 water	cop
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 water	advmod
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 water	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 water	det
8	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 met	mark
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 met	nsubj
11	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 water	advcl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 water	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	past	circle			the water		strangely property	tree rules
2	meet	past	others = other						vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: 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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