Peter Pan, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, sentence 257
With a last effort Peter pulled her up the rock and then lay down beside her.
Who acts: Peter · What happens: pull up, lay down · To what, where: girl
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 (Peter), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 4 effort | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 effort | det |
| 3 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 effort | amod |
| 4 | effort | effort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pulled | obl |
| 5 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 pulled | nsubj |
| 6 | pulled | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 pulled | obj |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 pulled | compound:prt |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 rock | det |
| 10 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pulled | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 lay | cc |
| 12 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 lay | advmod |
| 13 | lay | lay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 pulled | conj |
| 14 | down | down | ADV | _ | 13 lay | advmod |
| 15 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 16 her | case |
| 16 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 lay | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 pulled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pull up | past | Peter | girl | with a last effort | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: agent=Agent she=Theme rock=Result | |||
| 2 | lay down | infinitive | Peter not said here | then | beside girl; down property | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent beside she=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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