Peter Pan, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, sentence 7

They treated all the boys in the same way, except of course Peter, who chatted with them on Marooners’ Rock by the hour, and sat on their tails when they got cheeky.

Who acts: mermaids, Peter · What happens: treat, chat, sit, get · To what, where: boys, same way, Rock, tails

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 (mermaids, Peter), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 treated	nsubj
2	treated	treat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 boys	det:predet
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 boys	det
5	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 treated	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 way	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 way	det
8	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 way	amod
9	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 treated	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 Peter	punct
11	except	except	ADP	_	14 Peter	case
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 Peter	case
13	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 of	fixed
14	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 treated	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 chatted	punct
16	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 chatted	nsubj
17	chatted	chat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 Peter	acl:relcl
18	with	with	ADP	_	19 them	case
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 chatted	obl
20	on	on	ADP	_	23 Rock	case
21	Marooners	Marooner	PROPN	Number=Plur	23 Rock	nmod:poss
22	’	's	PART	_	21 Marooners	case
23	Rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 chatted	obl
24	by	by	ADP	_	26 hour	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 hour	det
26	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 chatted	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 sat	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 sat	cc
29	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 treated	conj
30	on	on	ADP	_	32 tails	case
31	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 tails	nmod:poss
32	tails	tail	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 sat	obl
33	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	35 got	advmod
34	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 got	nsubj
35	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 sat	advcl
36	cheeky	cheeky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 got	xcomp
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 treated	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	treat	past	mermaids = mermaid	all boys	the same way		except Peter	vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent boy=Recipient
2	chat speech: other	past	Peter		Marooners's Rock	hour	with mermaids = mermaid	vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with they=Co-Agent
3	sit	past	mermaids = mermaid not said here		mermaids's tails			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on tail=Location
4	get	past	mermaids = mermaid				cheeky property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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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