Peter Pan, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, sentence 44
While that smile was on his face no one dared address him; all they could do was to stand ready to obey.
Who acts: one, others, all · What happens: be, dare, address, do, obey · To what, where: face, smile
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 (one, others, all), 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 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 3 smile | mark |
| 2 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 smile | det |
| 3 | smile | smile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 face | advcl |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 face | cop |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 face | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 face | nmod:poss |
| 7 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 9 one | det |
| 9 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 dared | nsubj |
| 10 | dared | dare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 face | acl:relcl |
| 11 | address | address | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 dared | xcomp |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 address | obj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 stand | punct |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 stand | nsubj:outer |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 do | nsubj |
| 16 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 do | aux |
| 17 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 all | acl:relcl |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 stand | cop |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 stand | mark |
| 20 | stand | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 face | parataxis |
| 21 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 stand | xcomp |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 obey | mark |
| 23 | obey | obey | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 ready | xcomp |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 face | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | smile's face | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | dare | past | no one | smile's face not said here | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent face=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | address | infinitive | no one not said here | smile | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination | ||||
| 4 | do | could | others = other | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is | past | all | ready, stand property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | obey | to-infinitive | all not said here | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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