Peter Pan, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, sentence 53
Yet her face was impassive; she was the daughter of a chief, she must die as a chief’s daughter, it is enough.
Who acts: face, Tiger · What happens: be, die · To what, where: daughter
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 (face, 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 | Yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 5 impassive | cc |
| 2 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 face | nmod:poss |
| 3 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 impassive | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 impassive | cop |
| 5 | impassive | impassive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 daughter | punct |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 daughter | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 daughter | cop |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 daughter | det |
| 10 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 impassive | conj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 chief | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 chief | det |
| 13 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 daughter | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 die | punct |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 die | nsubj |
| 16 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 die | aux |
| 17 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 impassive | conj |
| 18 | as | as | ADP | _ | 22 daughter | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 chief | det |
| 20 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 21 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 20 chief | case |
| 22 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 die | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 enough | punct |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 enough | nsubj |
| 25 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 enough | cop |
| 26 | enough | enough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 impassive | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 impassive | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Tiger's face | impassive property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | Tiger | the daughter | of a chief | tree rules | |||
| 3 | die | must | Tiger | as a chief's daughter | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | is | present | face | enough property | 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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