Peter Pan, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, sentence 281
As they sat thus something brushed against Peter as light as a kiss, and stayed there, as if saying timidly, “Can I be of any use?”
Who acts: voices · What happens: sit, brush, stay, say, be · To what, where: something · 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 (voices), 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 sat | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sat | nsubj |
| 3 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 3 sat | advmod |
| 5 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 3 sat | obj |
| 6 | brushed | brush | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 something | acl |
| 7 | against | against | ADP | _ | 8 Peter | case |
| 8 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 brushed | obl |
| 9 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 light | case |
| 10 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 brushed | obl |
| 11 | as | as | ADP | _ | 13 kiss | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 kiss | det |
| 13 | kiss | kiss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 brushed | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 stayed | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 stayed | cc |
| 16 | stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sat | conj |
| 17 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 stayed | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 saying | punct |
| 19 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 21 saying | mark |
| 20 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 21 saying | mark |
| 21 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 stayed | advcl |
| 22 | timidly | timidly | ADV | _ | 21 saying | advmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 use | punct |
| 24 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 use | punct |
| 25 | Can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 use | aux |
| 26 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 use | nsubj |
| 27 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 30 use | cop |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 use | case |
| 29 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 30 use | det |
| 30 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 saying | ccomp |
| 31 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 30 use | punct |
| 32 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 use | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | voices = voice | something | thus property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location something=Theme | |||
| 2 | brush | participle | against Peter; as light; as a kiss | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme against peter=Destination | |||||
| 3 | stay | past | voices = voice not said here | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | say speech: ask | gerund | voices = voice not said here | timidly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | is in a quote | can | voices = voice | of any use | tree rules |
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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