Peter Pan, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, sentence 251
“They must be swimming back or flying,” the boys concluded.
Who acts: boys · What happens: swim back, fly, conclude · 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 swimming | punct |
| 2 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 swimming | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 swimming | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 swimming | aux |
| 5 | swimming | swim | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 concluded | ccomp |
| 6 | back | back | ADV | _ | 5 swimming | advmod |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 8 flying | cc |
| 8 | flying | fly | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 swimming | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 swimming | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 swimming | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 boys | det |
| 12 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 concluded | nsubj |
| 13 | concluded | conclude | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 concluded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swim back in a quote | must · progressive | boys = boy | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | fly in a quote | gerund | boys = boy not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | conclude | past | the boys | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=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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