Peter Pan, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, sentence 260
As they lay side by side a mermaid caught Wendy by the feet, and began pulling her softly into the water.
Who acts: figures, mermaid · What happens: lay, catch, begin, pull · To what, where: side, Wendy, water
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 (figures, mermaid), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 lay | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 lay | nsubj |
| 3 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 began | advcl |
| 4 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lay | obj |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 side | case |
| 6 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 side | nmod |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 mermaid | det |
| 8 | mermaid | mermaid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lay | obj |
| 9 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 mermaid | acl |
| 10 | Wendy | Wendy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 caught | obj |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 feet | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 feet | det |
| 13 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 caught | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 lay | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 began | cc |
| 16 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | pulling | pull | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 began | xcomp |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 pulling | obj |
| 19 | softly | softly | ADV | _ | 17 pulling | advmod |
| 20 | into | into | ADP | _ | 22 water | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 water | det |
| 22 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 pulling | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay | present | figures = figure | side | by side | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent side=Theme mermaid=Destination | |||
| 2 | catch | participle | a mermaid not said here | Wendy | by the feet | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wendy=Theme | |||
| 3 | begin | past | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||||
| 4 | pull | gerund | Wendy | the water | softly property | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: agent=Agent her=Result |
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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