Peter Pan, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, sentence 249

On ordinary occasions the boys would have swum alongside cheering; but now they were uneasy, for they had lost both Peter and Wendy, and were scouring the lagoon for them, calling them by name.

Who acts: boys · What happens: swim, cheer, be, lose, scour, call · To what, where: boys, ordinary occasions, Peter, lagoon · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (boys), 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	On	on	ADP	_	3 occasions	case
2	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 occasions	amod
3	occasions	occasion	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 swum	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 boys	det
5	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 swum	nsubj:pass
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 swum	aux
7	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 swum	aux
8	swum	swim	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	alongside	alongside	ADP	_	10 cheering	mark
10	cheering	cheer	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 swum	advcl
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 uneasy	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 uneasy	cc
13	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 uneasy	advmod
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 uneasy	nsubj
15	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 uneasy	cop
16	uneasy	uneasy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 swum	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 lost	punct
18	for	for	SCONJ	_	21 lost	mark
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 lost	nsubj
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 lost	aux
21	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 uneasy	conj
22	both	both	CCONJ	_	23 Peter	cc:preconj
23	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 lost	obl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 Wendy	cc
25	Wendy	Wendy	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 Peter	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 scouring	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 scouring	cc
28	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 scouring	aux
29	scouring	scour	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 uneasy	advcl
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 lagoon	det
31	lagoon	lagoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 scouring	obj
32	for	for	ADP	_	33 them	case
33	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 scouring	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 calling	punct
35	calling	call	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 scouring	conj
36	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 calling	obj
37	by	by	ADP	_	38 name	case
38	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 calling	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 swum	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swim	would · perfect · passive		the boys	ordinary occasions			vn run-51.3.2-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
2	cheer	gerund						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	is	past	boys = boy			now	uneasy property	tree rules
4	lose	past · perfect	boys = boy	Peter and Wendy				vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	scour	past · progressive	boys = boy not said here	the lagoon			for boys = boy	vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent lagoon=Location for they=Theme
6	call	gerund	boys = boy not said here	boys = boy			by name	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient

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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