Peter Pan, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, sentence 293
The rock was very small now; soon it would be submerged.
Who acts: rock · What happens: be, submerge · To what, where: Rock
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 (rock), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 rock | det |
| 2 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 small | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 small | cop |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 small | advmod |
| 5 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 small | advmod |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 submerged | punct |
| 8 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 submerged | advmod |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 submerged | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 submerged | aux |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 submerged | aux:pass |
| 12 | submerged | submerge | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 small | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 small | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the rock | now | small property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | submerge | would · passive | Rock | soon property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
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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