Peter Pan, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, sentence 297
Next moment he was standing erect on the rock again, with that smile on his face and a drum beating within him.
Who acts: Peter, drum · What happens: stand, beat · To what, where: Next moment, 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 (Peter, drum), 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 | Next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 moment | amod |
| 2 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 standing | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 standing | aux |
| 5 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 moment | acl:relcl |
| 6 | erect | erect | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 standing | xcomp |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 rock | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 rock | det |
| 9 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 standing | obl |
| 10 | again | again | ADV | _ | 5 standing | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 smile | punct |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 smile | case |
| 13 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 smile | det |
| 14 | smile | smile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 standing | obl |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 face | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 face | nmod:poss |
| 17 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 smile | nmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 drum | cc |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 drum | det |
| 20 | drum | drum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 face | conj |
| 21 | beating | beat | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 drum | acl |
| 22 | within | within | ADP | _ | 23 him | case |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 beating | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 moment | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past · progressive | Peter | Next moment not said here | the rock | again | with that smile on Peter's face and a drum; erect property | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent moment=Theme on rock=Destination | |
| 2 | beat | gerund | a drum not said here | within Peter | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=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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