Peter Pan, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, sentence 56
Now her fate would help to guard it also.
Who acts: fate, Tiger · What happens: help, guard, fate · To what, where: fate
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 (fate, 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 help | advmod |
| 2 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 fate | nmod:poss |
| 3 | fate | fate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 help | nsubj |
| 4 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 help | aux |
| 5 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 guard | mark |
| 7 | guard | guard | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 help | xcomp |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 guard | obj |
| 9 | also | also | ADV | _ | 7 guard | advmod |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 help | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | would | Tiger's fate | now | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | guard | to-infinitive | Tiger's fate not said here | fate | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | fate | Tiger | nom fate «event 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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