Peter Pan, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, sentence 263

“We are on the rock, Wendy,” he said, “but it is growing smaller.

Who acts: We, Peter, Rock · What happens: be, say, grow · To what, where: rock · 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 (We, Peter, Rock), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	6 rock	punct
2	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 rock	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 rock	cop
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 rock	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 rock	det
6	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 Wendy	punct
8	Wendy	Wendy	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 rock	appos
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 rock	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 rock	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 said	nsubj
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 growing	punct
14	“	"	PUNCT	_	18 growing	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 growing	cc
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 growing	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 growing	aux
18	growing	grow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 said	ccomp
19	smaller	small	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	18 growing	xcomp
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	We	the rock		tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	Peter			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	grow in a quote	present · progressive	Rock		small property	vn appear-48.1.1 «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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