Peter Pan, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, sentence 250

They found the dinghy and went home in it, shouting “Peter, Wendy” as they went, but no answer came save mocking laughter from the mermaids.

Who acts: boys, answer · What happens: find, go, shout, come, save, mock · To what, where: dinghy, Peter, laughter

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, answer), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 found	nsubj
2	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 dinghy	det
4	dinghy	dinghy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 found	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 went	cc
6	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 found	conj
7	home	home	ADV	_	6 went	advmod
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 it	case
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 went	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 shouting	punct
11	shouting	shout	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 went	advcl
12	“	"	PUNCT	_	13 Peter	punct
13	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 shouting	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 Wendy	punct
15	Wendy	Wendy	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Peter	conj
16	”	"	PUNCT	_	13 Peter	punct
17	as	as	SCONJ	_	19 went	mark
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 went	nsubj
19	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 shouting	advcl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 came	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 came	cc
22	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	23 answer	det
23	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 came	nsubj
24	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 found	conj
25	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 came	xcomp
26	mocking	mock	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	25 save	obj
27	laughter	laughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 mocking	obj
28	from	from	ADP	_	30 mermaids	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 mermaids	det
30	mermaids	mermaid	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 mocking	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	find	past	boys = boy	the dinghy			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dinghy=Topic
2	go	past	boys = boy not said here		dinghy	home property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in it=Location
3	shout speech: express	gerund	boys = boy not said here	Peter and Wendy			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peter=Topic
4	go	past	boys = boy				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	come	past	no answer				tree rules
6	save	infinitive	no answer not said here				vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
7	mock	gerund		laughter		from the mermaids	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent laughter=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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