Peter Pan, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, sentence 51
Her hands and ankles were tied, and she knew what was to be her fate.
Who acts: Tiger · What happens: tie, know, be · To what, where: hands, fate · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Tiger), 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 hands | nmod:poss |
| 2 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 tied | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 ankles | cc |
| 4 | ankles | ankle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 hands | conj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 tied | aux:pass |
| 6 | tied | tie | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 knew | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 knew | cc |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 knew | nsubj |
| 10 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 tied | conj |
| 11 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 16 fate | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 fate | cop |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 fate | mark |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 fate | cop |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 fate | nmod:poss |
| 16 | fate | fate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 knew | ccomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 tied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tie | past · passive | Tiger's hands and ankles | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | know | past | Tiger | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is a | past | Tiger's fate | 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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