Peter Pan, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, sentence 75
“Yes, cut her bonds and let her go.”
Who acts: you, Starkey · What happens: cut, let, go, bond · To what, where: bonds, Starkey
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 (you, Starkey), 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 cut | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 4 cut | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 bonds | nmod:poss |
| 6 | bonds | bond | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 cut | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 let | cc |
| 8 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 cut | conj |
| 9 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 let | obj |
| 10 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 let | xcomp |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 cut | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 cut | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cut in a quote | imperative | you not said here | Starkey's bonds | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset bond=Product | ||||
| 2 | let in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | Starkey | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | go in a quote | infinitive | Starkey not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | bond in a quote | Starkey | nom bond «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent |
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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