Peter Pan, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, sentence 70
“The captain!” said the pirates, staring at each other in surprise.
Who acts: captain · What happens: say, stare · To what, where: pirates · 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 (captain), 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 | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 captain | det |
| 3 | captain | captain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 captain | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 captain | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 pirates | det |
| 8 | pirates | pirate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 said | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 staring | punct |
| 10 | staring | stare | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 said | advcl |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 each | case |
| 12 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 10 staring | obl |
| 13 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 each | fixed |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 surprise | case |
| 15 | surprise | surprise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 staring | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the captain | the pirates | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent pirate=Topic | ||||
| 2 | stare | gerund | the captain not said here | in surprise; at each | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at each=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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