Peter Pan, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, sentence 84

But it was stayed even in the act, for “Boat ahoy!” rang over the lagoon in Hook’s voice, and this time it was not Peter who had spoken.

Who acts: Boat ahoy, mouth · What happens: stay, ring, not be, speak · To what, where: mouth, act, lagoon, Peter · 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 (Boat ahoy, mouth), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 stayed	cc
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stayed	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stayed	aux:pass
4	stayed	stay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	even	even	ADV	_	8 act	advmod
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 act	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 act	det
8	act	act	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stayed	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 rang	punct
10	for	for	SCONJ	_	16 rang	mark
11	“	"	PUNCT	_	13 ahoy	punct
12	Boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 ahoy	compound
13	ahoy	ahoy	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 rang	nsubj
14	!	!	PUNCT	_	13 ahoy	punct
15	”	"	PUNCT	_	13 ahoy	punct
16	rang	ring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stayed	conj
17	over	over	ADP	_	19 lagoon	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 lagoon	det
19	lagoon	lagoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 rang	obl
20	in	in	ADP	_	23 voice	case
21	Hook	Hook	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 voice	nmod:poss
22	’s	's	PART	_	21 Hook	case
23	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 rang	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 spoken	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 spoken	cc
26	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	27 time	det
27	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 spoken	obl:unmarked
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 Peter	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 Peter	cop
30	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 Peter	advmod
31	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 spoken	nsubj:pass
32	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 spoken	nsubj
33	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 spoken	aux
34	spoken	speak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 stayed	conj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 stayed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	past · passive		mouth	the act			vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: subject=Location
2	ring	past	Boat ahoy		the lagoon		in Hook's voice	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over lagoon=Location
3	not is a	past	mouth	Peter				tree rules
4	speak speech: other	past · perfect · passive		Peter		time		tree rules

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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