Peter Pan, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, sentence 31
They drown when the tide rises, for then it is submerged.
Who acts: captains, tide · What happens: drown, rise, submerge · To what, where: tide
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 (captains, tide), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 drown | nsubj |
| 2 | drown | drown | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 6 rises | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 tide | det |
| 5 | tide | tide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 rises | nsubj |
| 6 | rises | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 drown | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 submerged | punct |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 then | case |
| 9 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 submerged | obl |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 submerged | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 submerged | aux:pass |
| 12 | submerged | submerge | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 rises | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 drown | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drown | present | captains = captain | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | rise | present | the tide | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | submerge | present · passive | tide | 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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