Peter Pan, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, sentence 62
Quite near the rock, but out of sight, two heads were bobbing up and down, Peter’s and Wendy’s.
Who acts: two heads · What happens: bob up · To what, where: rock, sight
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 (two heads), 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 | Quite | quite | ADV | _ | 4 rock | advmod |
| 2 | near | near | ADP | _ | 4 rock | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 rock | det |
| 4 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 bobbing | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 bobbing | cc |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 sight | case |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 sight | case |
| 9 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 bobbing | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 sight | punct |
| 11 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 heads | nummod |
| 12 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 bobbing | nsubj |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 bobbing | aux |
| 14 | bobbing | bob | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 rock | acl |
| 15 | up | up | ADV | _ | 14 bobbing | advmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 down | cc |
| 17 | down | down | ADV | _ | 15 up | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Peter | punct |
| 19 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 bobbing | obl |
| 20 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 19 Peter | case |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 Wendy | cc |
| 22 | Wendy | Wendy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Peter | conj |
| 23 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 19 Peter | case |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 rock | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bob up | past · progressive | two heads | the rock not said here | sight | 's Peter and Wendy | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rock=Patient |
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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