Peter Pan, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, sentence 89
He was swimming to the boat, and as his men showed a light to guide him he had soon reached them.
Who acts: Hook, men · What happens: swim, show, guide, reach · To what, where: boat, light, Hook, men
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 (Hook, men), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 swimming | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 swimming | aux |
| 3 | swimming | swim | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 boat | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 boat | det |
| 6 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 swimming | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 showed | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 showed | cc |
| 9 | as | as | ADP | _ | 11 men | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 men | nmod:poss |
| 11 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 showed | nsubj |
| 12 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 swimming | conj |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 light | det |
| 14 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 showed | obj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 guide | mark |
| 16 | guide | guide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 showed | advcl |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 guide | obj |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 reached | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 reached | aux |
| 20 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 21 reached | advmod |
| 21 | reached | reach | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 guide | ccomp |
| 22 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 reached | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 swimming | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swim | past · progressive | Hook | the boat | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to boat=Destination | ||||
| 2 | show | past | Hook's men | a light | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent light=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | guide | to-infinitive | Hook's men not said here | Hook | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | reach | past · perfect | Hook | men = man | soon property | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
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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