Peter Pan, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, sentence 72
“We are putting the redskin on the rock,” Smee called out.
Who acts: We · What happens: put, call out · To what, where: redskin, rock, Smee · 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 (We), 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 | _ | 4 putting | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 putting | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 putting | aux |
| 4 | putting | put | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 redskin | det |
| 6 | redskin | redskin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 putting | obj |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 rock | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 rock | det |
| 9 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 putting | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 putting | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 putting | punct |
| 12 | Smee | Smee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 called | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 putting | advcl |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 called | compound:prt |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 putting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put in a quote | present · progressive | We | the redskin | the rock | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent redskin=Theme on rock=Destination | |||
| 2 | call out speech: assert | participle · passive | Smee | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
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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