Peter Pan, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, sentence 256

Two small figures were beating against the rock; the girl had fainted and lay on the boy’s arm.

Who acts: Two small figures · What happens: beat, faint, lay · To what, where: rock, girl, arm

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 (Two small figures), 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	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 figures	nummod
2	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 figures	amod
3	figures	figure	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 beating	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 beating	aux
5	beating	beat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	against	against	ADP	_	8 rock	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 rock	det
8	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 beating	obl
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 fainted	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 girl	det
11	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 fainted	nsubj:pass
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 fainted	aux
13	fainted	faint	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 beating	parataxis
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 lay	cc
15	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 fainted	conj
16	on	on	ADP	_	20 arm	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 boy	det
18	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 arm	nmod:poss
19	’s	's	PART	_	18 boy	case
20	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 lay	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 beating	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	beat	past · progressive	Two small figures		the rock	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against rock=Location
2	faint	past · perfect · passive		the girl		tree rules
3	lay	infinitive			the boy's arm	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on arm=Destination

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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