Peter Pan, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, sentence 285
“It lifted Michael off the ground,” he cried; “why should it not carry you?”
Who acts: kite, Michael · What happens: lift, cry, not carry · To what, where: Michael, ground, you · 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 (kite, Michael), 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 | _ | 3 lifted | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 lifted | nsubj |
| 3 | lifted | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 cried | advcl |
| 4 | Michael | Michael | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 lifted | obj |
| 5 | off | off | ADP | _ | 7 ground | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 ground | det |
| 7 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lifted | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 lifted | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 lifted | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 cried | nsubj |
| 11 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 carry | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 carry | punct |
| 14 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 carry | advmod |
| 15 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 carry | aux |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 carry | nsubj |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 carry | advmod |
| 18 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 cried | ccomp |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 carry | obj |
| 20 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 18 carry | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 carry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lift in a quote | past | kite | Michael | the ground | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent michael=Theme off ground=Destination | |||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | Michael | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not carry in a quote | should | kite | you | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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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