Peter Pan, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, sentence 254
When their voices died away there came cold silence over the lagoon, and then a feeble cry.
Who acts: voices, cold silence · What happens: die away, come · To what, where: feeble cry
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 (voices, cold silence), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 died | mark |
| 2 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 voices | nmod:poss |
| 3 | voices | voice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 died | nsubj |
| 4 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 came | advcl |
| 5 | away | away | ADV | _ | 4 died | advmod |
| 6 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 died | advmod |
| 7 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 silence | amod |
| 9 | silence | silence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 came | nsubj |
| 10 | over | over | ADP | _ | 12 lagoon | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 lagoon | det |
| 12 | lagoon | lagoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 silence | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 cry | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 cry | cc |
| 15 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 cry | advmod |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 cry | det |
| 17 | feeble | feeble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 cry | amod |
| 18 | cry | cry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 came | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die away | past | boys's voices | there | away property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||
| 2 | come | past | cold silence over the lagoon | a feeble cry | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: 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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