Peter Pan, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, sentence 225
Hook rose to the rock to breathe, and at the same moment Peter scaled it on the opposite side.
Who acts: Hook, Peter · What happens: rise, breathe, scale · To what, where: rock, circle, opposite side
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 (Hook, Peter), 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 | Hook | hook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 rose | nsubj |
| 2 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 rock | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 rock | det |
| 5 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 rose | obl |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 breathe | mark |
| 7 | breathe | breathe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 rose | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 scaled | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 scaled | cc |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 moment | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 moment | det |
| 12 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 moment | amod |
| 13 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 scaled | obl |
| 14 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 scaled | nsubj |
| 15 | scaled | scale | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 rose | conj |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 scaled | obj |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 side | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 side | det |
| 19 | opposite | opposite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 side | amod |
| 20 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 scaled | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 rose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | past | Hook | the rock | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to rock=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | breathe | to-infinitive | Hook not said here | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | scale | past | Peter | circle | the opposite side | moment | vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Source |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/9/225/