Peter Pan, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, sentence 82
At once like an eel she slid between Starkey’s legs into the water.
Who acts: Starkey · What happens: slide · To what, where: water
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 (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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 once | case |
| 2 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 7 slid | advmod |
| 3 | like | like | ADP | _ | 5 eel | case |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 eel | det |
| 5 | eel | eel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 once | obl |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 slid | nsubj |
| 7 | slid | slide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | between | between | ADP | _ | 11 legs | case |
| 9 | Starkey | Starkey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 legs | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 9 Starkey | case |
| 11 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 slid | obl |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 water | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 water | det |
| 14 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 slid | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 slid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | slide | past | Starkey | the water | between Starkey's legs; once property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme between leg=Source into water=Trajectory |
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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