Peter Pan, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, sentence 71
“He must be swimming out to us,” Starkey said, when they had looked for him in vain.
Who acts: Peter, Starkey, captains · What happens: swim out, say, look · To what, where: us, vain · 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 (Peter, Starkey, captains), 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 | _ | 5 swimming | punct |
| 2 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 swimming | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 swimming | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 swimming | aux |
| 5 | swimming | swim | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 said | ccomp |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 swimming | compound:prt |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 us | case |
| 8 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 swimming | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 swimming | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 swimming | punct |
| 11 | Starkey | Starkey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 looked | punct |
| 14 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 looked | advmod |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 looked | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 looked | aux |
| 17 | looked | look | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 said | ccomp |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 him | case |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 looked | obl |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 vain | case |
| 21 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 looked | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swim out in a quote | must · progressive | Peter | us | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to we=Destination | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Starkey | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | look | past · perfect | captains = captain | vain | for Peter | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for he=Theme in vain=Location |
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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