Peter Pan, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, sentence 287
“It can’t lift two; Michael and Curly tried.”
Who acts: kite, Michael · What happens: not lift, try · To what, where: two
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 | _ | 5 lift | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 lift | nsubj |
| 3 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 lift | aux |
| 4 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 lift | advmod |
| 5 | lift | lift | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 lift | obj |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 tried | punct |
| 8 | Michael | Michael | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 tried | nsubj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 Curly | cc |
| 10 | Curly | Curly | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Michael | conj |
| 11 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 lift | advcl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 lift | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 lift | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not lift in a quote | can | kite | two | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent two=Theme | ||||
| 2 | try in a quote | past | Michael and Curly | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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