Peter Pan, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, sentence 3

This is the nearest you ever get to it on the mainland, just one heavenly moment; if there could be two moments you might see the surf and hear the mermaids singing.

Who acts: This, you, two moments, mermaids · What happens: be, get, see, hear, sing · To what, where: fire, mainland, surf, mermaids

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 (This, you, two moments, 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:pg16:1119): 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 nearest	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 nearest	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 nearest	det
4	nearest	near	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 get	nsubj
6	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	7 get	advmod
7	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 nearest	acl:relcl
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 it	case
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 get	obl
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 mainland	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 mainland	det
12	mainland	mainland	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 get	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 moment	punct
14	just	just	ADV	_	17 moment	advmod
15	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 moment	nummod
16	heavenly	heavenly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 moment	amod
17	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 nearest	appos
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 see	punct
19	if	if	SCONJ	_	22 be	mark
20	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	22 be	expl
21	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 be	aux
22	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 see	advcl
23	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 moments	nummod
24	moments	moment	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 be	nsubj
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 see	nsubj
26	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 see	aux
27	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 nearest	parataxis
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 surf	det
29	surf	surf	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 see	obj
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 hear	cc
31	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 see	conj
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 mermaids	det
33	mermaids	mermaid	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 hear	obj
34	singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	31 hear	xcomp
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 nearest	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	This					near property	tree rules
2	get	infinitive	you		fire	the mainland	ever		vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to it=Result
3	can a condition, not said to happen	could	two moments			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	see	might	you	the surf					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer surf=Stimulus
5	hear	infinitive	you not said here	the mermaids					tree rules
6	sing speech: express	gerund	the mermaids not said here						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: 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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