Peter Pan, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, sentence 58
In the gloom that they brought with them the two pirates did not see the rock till they crashed into it.
Who acts: Pirates, two pirates · What happens: bring, not see, crash · To what, where: gloom, rock
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 (Pirates, two pirates), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 gloom | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 gloom | det |
| 3 | gloom | gloom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 brought | obl |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 brought | mark |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 brought | nsubj |
| 6 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 them | case |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 brought | obl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 pirates | det |
| 10 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 pirates | nummod |
| 11 | pirates | pirate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 see | nsubj |
| 12 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 see | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 see | advmod |
| 14 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 brought | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 rock | det |
| 16 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 see | obj |
| 17 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 19 crashed | mark |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 crashed | nsubj |
| 19 | crashed | crash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 see | advcl |
| 20 | into | into | ADP | _ | 21 it | case |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 crashed | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past | Pirates = pirate | the gloom | with hands = hand | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | not see | past · do-support | the two pirates | the rock | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rock=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | crash | past | Pirates = pirate | Rock | vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into it=Result |
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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