Peter Pan, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, sentence 25

Wendy could no longer see to thread her needle, and when she looked up, the lagoon that had always hitherto been such a laughing place seemed formidable and unfriendly.

Who acts: Wendy, lagoon, laughing place · What happens: see, look up, have, laugh, be, seem · To what, where: thread, lagoon, laughing place

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 (Wendy, lagoon, laughing place), 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	Wendy	Wendy	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 see	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 see	aux
3	no	no	ADV	_	4 longer	advmod
4	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 see	advmod
5	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 thread	mark
7	thread	thread	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 see	obj
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 needle	nmod:poss
9	needle	needle	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 thread	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 looked	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 looked	cc
12	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 looked	advmod
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 looked	nsubj
14	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 see	parataxis
15	up	up	ADP	_	14 looked	compound:prt
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 lagoon	punct
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 lagoon	det
18	lagoon	lagoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 looked	obl
19	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 had	nsubj
20	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 lagoon	acl:relcl
21	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	20 had	advmod
22	hitherto	hitherto	ADV	_	27 place	advmod
23	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	27 place	cop
24	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	27 place	det:predet
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 place	det
26	laughing	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	27 place	amod
27	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 seemed	nsubj
28	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 had	parataxis
29	formidable	formidable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 seemed	xcomp
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 unfriendly	cc
31	unfriendly	unfriendly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 formidable	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	see	could	Wendy	thread	long property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thread=Stimulus
2	look up	past	Wendy	the lagoon		vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	have	past	the lagoon		always property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	laugh	gerund				vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is a	participle		such laughing place	hitherto property	tree rules
6	seem	past	such laughing place		formidable property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: 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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