Peter Pan, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, sentence 226
The rock was slippery as a ball, and they had to crawl rather than climb.
Who acts: rock, balls · What happens: be, have, crawl, climb
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 (rock, balls), 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 rock | det |
| 2 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 slippery | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 slippery | cop |
| 4 | slippery | slippery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | as | as | ADP | _ | 7 ball | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 ball | det |
| 7 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 slippery | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 had | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 had | cc |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 had | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 slippery | conj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 crawl | mark |
| 13 | crawl | crawl | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 had | xcomp |
| 14 | rather | rather | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 16 climb | cc |
| 15 | than | than | ADP | _ | 14 rather | fixed |
| 16 | climb | climb | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 crawl | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 slippery | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the rock | as a ball; slippery property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | past | balls = ball | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | crawl | to-infinitive | balls = ball not said here | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | climb | infinitive | balls = ball not said here | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=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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