Peter Pan, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, sentence 59
“Luff, you lubber,” cried an Irish voice that was Smee’s; “here’s the rock.
Who acts: you, Luff, that · What happens: lubber, cry, be · To what, where: Irish voice · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (you, Luff, that), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Luff | punct |
| 2 | Luff | luff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cried | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 lubber | punct |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 lubber | nsubj |
| 5 | lubber | lubber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Luff | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Luff | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Luff | punct |
| 8 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 voice | det |
| 10 | Irish | Irish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 voice | amod |
| 11 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cried | obj |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 Smee | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 Smee | cop |
| 14 | Smee | Smee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 voice | appos |
| 15 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 14 Smee | case |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 ’s | punct |
| 17 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 here | punct |
| 18 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 ’s | advmod |
| 19 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 cried | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 rock | det |
| 21 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 ’s | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lubber in a quote | you | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | Luff and lubber | a Irish voice | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voice=Topic | ||||
| 3 | is | past | that | 's Smee | 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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