Peter Pan, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, sentence 48
Marooners’ Rock stood alone in the forbidding waters as if it were itself marooned.
Who acts: Rock · What happens: stand, maroon · To what, where: forbidding waters, Rock
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 (Rock), 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 | Marooners | marooner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 Rock | nmod:poss |
| 2 | ’ | 's | PART | _ | 1 Marooners | case |
| 3 | Rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stood | nsubj |
| 4 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 4 stood | advmod |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 waters | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 waters | det |
| 8 | forbidding | forbidding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 waters | compound |
| 9 | waters | water | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 stood | obl |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 marooned | mark |
| 11 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 15 marooned | mark |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 marooned | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 marooned | aux:pass |
| 14 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 15 marooned | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | marooned | maroon | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 stood | advcl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | Marooners's Rock | the forbidding waters | alone property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in water=Location | |||
| 2 | maroon | past · passive | Rock | Rock obl:unmarked | tree rules |
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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