Peter Pan, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, sentence 60
Now, then, what we have to do is to hoist the redskin on to it and leave her here to drown.”
Who acts: we · What happens: have, do, be, leave, drown · To what, where: redskin, lubber
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 (we), 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 | 12 hoist | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Now | punct |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 hoist | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 then | punct |
| 5 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 hoist | nsubj:outer |
| 6 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 have | nsubj |
| 7 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 what | acl:relcl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 do | mark |
| 9 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 have | xcomp |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 hoist | cop |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 hoist | mark |
| 12 | hoist | hoist | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 redskin | det |
| 14 | redskin | redskin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 hoist | obj |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 it | case |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 it | case |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 hoist | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 leave | cc |
| 19 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 hoist | conj |
| 20 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 leave | obj |
| 21 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 leave | advmod |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 drown | mark |
| 23 | drown | drown | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 leave | advcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 hoist | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 hoist | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | we | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | do | to-infinitive | we not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | present | redskin | now; then | hoist property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | leave | infinitive | lubber | here | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 5 | drown | to-infinitive | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=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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