Peter Pan, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, sentence 61
It was the work of one brutal moment to land the beautiful girl on the rock; she was too proud to offer a vain resistance.
Who acts: redskin, girl · What happens: be, land, offer · To what, where: work, beautiful girl, rock, vain resistance
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 (redskin, girl), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 work | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 work | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 work | det |
| 4 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 moment | case |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 moment | nummod |
| 7 | brutal | brutal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 moment | amod |
| 8 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 work | nmod |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 land | mark |
| 10 | land | land | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 moment | acl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 girl | det |
| 12 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 girl | amod |
| 13 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 land | obj |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 rock | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 rock | det |
| 16 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 girl | nmod |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 proud | punct |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 proud | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 proud | cop |
| 20 | too | too | ADV | _ | 21 proud | advmod |
| 21 | proud | proud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 work | parataxis |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 offer | mark |
| 23 | offer | offer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 proud | csubj |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 resistance | det |
| 25 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 resistance | amod |
| 26 | resistance | resistance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 offer | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 work | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | redskin | the work | moment | tree rules | |||
| 2 | land | to-infinitive | redskin not said here | the beautiful girl | the rock | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent girl=Theme on rock=Destination | |||
| 3 | is | past | girl | proud property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | offer | to-infinitive | a vain resistance | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent resistance=Theme |
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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