Peter Pan, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, sentence 268
“Shall we swim or fly, Peter?”
Who acts: we · What happens: swim, fly · To what, where: Peter
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), 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 | _ | 4 swim | punct |
| 2 | Shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 swim | aux |
| 3 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 swim | nsubj |
| 4 | swim | swim | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 6 fly | cc |
| 6 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 swim | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Peter | punct |
| 8 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 swim | obl |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 swim | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 swim | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swim in a quote | shall | we | Peter | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fly in a quote | infinitive | we not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «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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