Peter Pan, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, sentence 55
No watch was kept on the ship, it being Hook’s boast that the wind of his name guarded the ship for a mile around.
Who acts: watch, wind · What happens: keep, be, guard, wind, name · To what, where: watch, ship, boast, name
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 (watch, wind), 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 watch | det |
| 2 | watch | watch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 kept | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 kept | aux:pass |
| 4 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 ship | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 ship | det |
| 7 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 kept | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 boast | punct |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 boast | nsubj |
| 10 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 boast | cop |
| 11 | Hook | Hook | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 boast | nmod:poss |
| 12 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 11 Hook | case |
| 13 | boast | boast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 kept | parataxis |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 guarded | mark |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 wind | det |
| 16 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 guarded | nsubj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 name | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 name | nmod:poss |
| 19 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 wind | nmod |
| 20 | guarded | guard | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 boast | advcl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 ship | det |
| 22 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 guarded | obj |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 mile | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 mile | det |
| 25 | mile | mile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 guarded | obl |
| 26 | around | around | ADV | _ | 20 guarded | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 kept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | past · passive | no watch | the ship | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme on ship=Location | ||||
| 2 | is a | gerund | watch | Hook's boast | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | guard | past | the wind of wind's name | the ship | for a mile; around property | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ship=Beneficiary | |||
| 4 | wind | wind's name | nom wind «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 5 | name | wind | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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