Peter Pan, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, sentence 259
He knew that they would soon be drowned, but he could do no more.
Who acts: water · What happens: know, drown, do · To what, where: figures, more · 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 (water), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 knew | nsubj |
| 2 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 drowned | mark |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 drowned | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 drowned | aux |
| 6 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 drowned | advmod |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 drowned | aux:pass |
| 8 | drowned | drown | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 knew | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 do | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 do | cc |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 do | nsubj |
| 12 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 do | aux |
| 13 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 knew | conj |
| 14 | no | no | ADV | _ | 15 more | advmod |
| 15 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 13 do | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | water | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | drown | would · passive | figures = figure | soon property | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 3 | do | could | water | more | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Eventuality |
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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