Peter Pan, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, sentence 50
It was the pirate dinghy, with three figures in her, Smee and Starkey, and the third a captive, no other than Tiger Lily.
Who acts: boat · What happens: be · To what, where: pirate dinghy
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 (boat), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 dinghy | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 dinghy | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 dinghy | det |
| 4 | pirate | pirate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dinghy | compound |
| 5 | dinghy | dinghy | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 figures | punct |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 figures | case |
| 8 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 figures | nummod |
| 9 | figures | figure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 dinghy | appos |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 her | case |
| 11 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 figures | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Smee | punct |
| 13 | Smee | Smee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 figures | appos |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 Starkey | cc |
| 15 | Starkey | Starkey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Smee | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 third | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 third | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 third | det |
| 19 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 dinghy | parataxis |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 captive | det |
| 21 | captive | captive | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 third | nsubj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 other | punct |
| 23 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 24 other | det |
| 24 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 dinghy | parataxis |
| 25 | than | than | ADP | _ | 26 Tiger | case |
| 26 | Tiger | Tiger | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 other | obl |
| 27 | Lily | Lily | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Tiger | flat |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 dinghy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | boat | the pirate dinghy | 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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