Peter Pan, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, sentence 54
They had caught her boarding the pirate ship with a knife in her mouth.
What happens: catch, board · To what, where: hands, pirate ship
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: 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 caught | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 caught | aux |
| 3 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 caught | obj |
| 5 | boarding | board | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 caught | advcl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 ship | det |
| 7 | pirate | pirate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ship | compound |
| 8 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 boarding | obj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 knife | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 knife | det |
| 11 | knife | knife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 boarding | obl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 mouth | case |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 14 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 knife | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 caught | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch | past · perfect · passive | hands = hand | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary she=Theme | |||||
| 2 | board | gerund | the pirate ship | with a knife in Tiger's mouth | vn odge-46-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent ship=Theme with knife=Location |
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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