Peter Pan, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, sentence 35
Even when she heard the sound of muffled oars, though her heart was in her mouth, she did not waken them.
Who acts: Wendy, heart · What happens: hear, muffle, be, not waken · To what, where: sound, mouth, oars
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 (Wendy, heart), 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 | Even | even | ADV | _ | 4 heard | advmod |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 heard | advmod |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 heard | nsubj |
| 4 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sound | det |
| 6 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 heard | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 oars | case |
| 8 | muffled | muffle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 oars | amod |
| 9 | oars | oar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 sound | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 mouth | punct |
| 11 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 17 mouth | mark |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 heart | nmod:poss |
| 13 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 mouth | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 mouth | cop |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 mouth | case |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 17 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 heard | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 waken | punct |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 waken | nsubj |
| 20 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 waken | aux |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 waken | advmod |
| 22 | waken | waken | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 heard | conj |
| 23 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 waken | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | Wendy | the sound of muffled oars | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer sound=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | muffle | participle | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | is | past | Wendy's heart | Wendy's mouth | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not waken | past · do-support | Wendy | oars = oar | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=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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