Peter Pan, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, sentence 28

It had not come, but it had sent that shiver through the sea to say that it was coming.

Who acts: place · What happens: not come, send, say, come · To what, where: place, sea · 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 (place), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 come	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 come	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 come	advmod
4	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 sent	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 sent	cc
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 sent	nsubj:pass
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 sent	aux
9	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 come	parataxis
10	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 shiver	det
11	shiver	shiver	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sent	obj
12	through	through	ADP	_	14 sea	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 sea	det
14	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sent	obl
15	to	to	PART	_	16 say	mark
16	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 sent	advcl
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 coming	mark
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 coming	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 coming	aux
20	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 say	ccomp
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	not come	past	place			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	send	past · perfect · passive		place	the sea	vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Destination shiver=Theme
3	say speech: assert	to-infinitive				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	come	past · progressive	place			vn escape-51.1-1 «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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