Peter Pan, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, sentence 24
Little shivers ran over it, and the sun went away and shadows stole across the water, turning it cold.
Who acts: Little shivers, sun, shadows · What happens: run, go away, steal, turn · To what, where: lagoon, water, sun
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 (Little shivers, sun, shadows), 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 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 shivers | amod |
| 2 | shivers | shiver | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 ran | nsubj |
| 3 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | over | over | ADP | _ | 5 it | case |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 ran | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 went | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 went | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sun | det |
| 9 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 went | nsubj |
| 10 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 ran | parataxis |
| 11 | away | away | ADV | _ | 10 went | advmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 stole | cc |
| 13 | shadows | shadow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 stole | nsubj |
| 14 | stole | steal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 went | conj |
| 15 | across | across | ADP | _ | 17 water | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 water | det |
| 17 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 stole | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 turning | punct |
| 19 | turning | turn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 stole | advcl |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 turning | obj |
| 21 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 turning | xcomp |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | Little shivers | lagoon | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over it=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | go away | past | the sun | away property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | steal | past | shadows | the water | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | turn | gerund | shadows not said here | sun | cold property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=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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