Peter Pan, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, sentence 81
“Ay, ay,” Smee said, and he cut Tiger Lily’s cords.
Who acts: Smee, Better · What happens: say, cut · To what, where: cords · 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 (Smee, Better), 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 | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 2 | Ay | ay | INTJ | _ | 4 ay | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ay | punct |
| 4 | ay | ay | INTJ | _ | 8 said | discourse |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 ay | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 ay | punct |
| 7 | Smee | Smee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 cut | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 cut | cc |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 cut | nsubj |
| 12 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | ccomp |
| 13 | Tiger | Tiger | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Lily | compound |
| 14 | Lily | Lily | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 cords | nmod:poss |
| 15 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 14 Lily | case |
| 16 | cords | cord | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 cut | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Smee | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | cut | past | Better = good | Tiger Lily's cords | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cord=Product |
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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