Peter Pan, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, sentence 95
“Captain, is all well?” they asked timidly, but he answered with a hollow moan.
Who acts: Captain, Hook · What happens: be, ask, answer · 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 (Captain, 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Captain | punct |
| 2 | Captain | captain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 asked | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Captain | punct |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 well | cop |
| 5 | all | all | ADV | _ | 6 well | advmod |
| 6 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 Captain | conj |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 well | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Captain | punct |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 asked | nsubj |
| 10 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | timidly | timidly | ADV | _ | 10 asked | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 answered | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 answered | cc |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 answered | nsubj |
| 15 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 asked | parataxis |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 moan | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 moan | det |
| 18 | hollow | hollow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 moan | amod |
| 19 | moan | moan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 answered | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | Captain not said here | all, well property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | Captain | timidly property | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | answer speech: assert | past | Hook | with a hollow moan | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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