Peter Pan, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, sentence 47
There was a gleam of legs, and instantly the lagoon seemed deserted.
Who acts: gleam · What happens: be, desert · To what, where: lagoon
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 (gleam), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 gleam | det |
| 4 | gleam | gleam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 legs | case |
| 6 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 gleam | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 deserted | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 deserted | cc |
| 9 | instantly | instantly | ADV | _ | 13 deserted | advmod |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 lagoon | det |
| 11 | lagoon | lagoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 deserted | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 deserted | aux:pass |
| 13 | deserted | desert | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 was | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a gleam of legs | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | desert | past · passive | the lagoon | instantly property | vn leave-51.2-1 «NP V NP.initial_location»: subject=Source |
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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