Peter Pan, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, sentence 4
The children often spent long summer days on this lagoon, swimming or floating most of the time, playing the mermaid games in the water, and so forth.
Who acts: children · What happens: spend, float, play · To what, where: lagoon, most, mermaid games, water
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 (children), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 children | det |
| 2 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 spent | nsubj |
| 3 | often | often | ADV | _ | 4 spent | advmod |
| 4 | spent | spend | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 days | amod |
| 6 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 days | compound |
| 7 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 spent | obj |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 lagoon | case |
| 9 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 lagoon | det |
| 10 | lagoon | lagoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 spent | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 swimming | punct |
| 12 | swimming | swimming | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lagoon | conj |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 floating | cc |
| 14 | floating | float | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 swimming | conj |
| 15 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 14 floating | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 time | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 time | det |
| 18 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 most | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 playing | punct |
| 20 | playing | play | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 spent | advcl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 games | det |
| 22 | mermaid | mermaid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 games | compound |
| 23 | games | game | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 playing | obj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 water | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 water | det |
| 26 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 playing | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 forth | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 forth | cc |
| 29 | so | so | ADV | _ | 30 forth | advmod |
| 30 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 4 spent | advmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 spent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spend | past | the children | day | on this lagoon and swimming goal; forth, often property | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent on lagoon=Goal | |||
| 2 | float | gerund | the children not said here | most of the time | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent most=Agent | ||||
| 3 | play | gerund | the children not said here | the mermaid games | the water | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=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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