Peter Pan, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, sentence 229
Some of the greatest heroes have confessed that just before they fell to they had a sinking.
Who acts: others · What happens: confess, fall, have · To what, where: Some, sinking
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 (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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 confessed | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 heroes | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 heroes | det |
| 4 | greatest | great | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 heroes | amod |
| 5 | heroes | hero | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Some | nmod |
| 6 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 confessed | aux |
| 7 | confessed | confess | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 confessed | obj |
| 9 | just | just | ADV | _ | 12 fell | advmod |
| 10 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 12 fell | mark |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 fell | nsubj |
| 12 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 confessed | advcl |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 had | case |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 had | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 fell | advcl |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 sinking | det |
| 17 | sinking | sinking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 had | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 confessed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | confess | present · perfect · passive | Some | vn declare-29.4 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme that=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | fall | past | others = other | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | have | past | others = other | a sinking | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sinking=Patient |
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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