Peter Pan, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, sentence 94

The two pirates were very curious to know what had brought their captain to them, but he sat with his head on his hook in a position of profound melancholy.

Who acts: two pirates, Hook · What happens: be, know, bring, sit · To what, where: captain, hook · 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 (two pirates, Hook), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 pirates	det
2	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 pirates	nummod
3	pirates	pirate	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 curious	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 curious	cop
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 curious	advmod
6	curious	curious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 know	mark
8	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 curious	csubj
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 brought	nsubj:pass
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 brought	aux
11	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 know	ccomp
12	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 captain	nmod:poss
13	captain	captain	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 brought	obj
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 them	case
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 captain	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 sat	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 sat	cc
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 sat	nsubj
19	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 curious	parataxis
20	with	with	ADP	_	22 head	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 head	nmod:poss
22	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 sat	obl
23	on	on	ADP	_	25 hook	case
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 hook	nmod:poss
25	hook	hook	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 sat	obl
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 position	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 position	det
28	position	position	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 sat	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 melancholy	case
30	profound	profound	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 melancholy	amod
31	melancholy	melancholy	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 position	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 curious	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the two pirates			curious property	tree rules
2	know	to-infinitive					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	bring	past · perfect · passive		Pirates's captain		to Pirates = pirate	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme captain=Destination
4	sit	past	Hook		Hook's hook	with Hook's head; in a position of profound melancholy	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on hook=Location

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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