Peter Pan, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, sentence 294

Pale rays of light tiptoed across the waters; and by and by there was to be heard a sound at once the most musical and the most melancholy in the world: the mermaids calling to the moon.

Who acts: Pale rays, mermaids · What happens: tiptoe, be, hear, call, ray · To what, where: waters, sound, moon, light · 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 (Pale rays, mermaids), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg16:1343): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 rays	amod
2	rays	ray	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 tiptoed	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 light	case
4	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 rays	nmod
5	tiptoed	tiptoe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	across	across	ADP	_	8 waters	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 waters	det
8	waters	water	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 tiptoed	obl
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 was	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 was	cc
11	by	by	ADP	ExtPos=ADV	15 was	advmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 by	fixed
13	by	by	ADP	_	11 by	fixed
14	there	there	PRON	_	15 was	expl
15	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 tiptoed	conj
16	to	to	PART	_	18 heard	mark
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 heard	aux:pass
18	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 was	xcomp
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 sound	det
20	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 heard	nsubj:pass
21	at	at	ADP	ExtPos=ADV	25 musical	advmod
22	once	once	ADV	_	21 at	fixed
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 musical	det
24	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	25 musical	advmod
25	musical	musical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 sound	amod
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 melancholy	cc
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 melancholy	det
28	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	29 melancholy	advmod
29	melancholy	melancholy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 musical	conj
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 world	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 world	det
32	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 melancholy	obl
33	:	:	PUNCT	_	35 mermaids	punct
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 mermaids	det
35	mermaids	mermaid	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 sound	appos
36	calling	call	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	35 mermaids	acl
37	to	to	ADP	_	39 moon	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 moon	det
39	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 calling	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 tiptoed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	tiptoe	past	Pale rays of light			the waters	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across water=Trajectory
2	be	past	Pale rays of light not said here			there	tree rules
3	hear	to-infinitive · passive		a sound			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus
4	call	gerund	the mermaids not said here		the moon		vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to moon=Recipient
5	ray			light			nom ray «phenomenon transitive»: of=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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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