Peter Pan, Chapter IX. THE NEVER BIRD, sentence 49

Next day, however, she was awfully tender, and gave out bandages to every one, and they played till bed-time at limping about and carrying their arms in slings.

Who acts: Next day, awfully tender, bandages · What happens: be, give out, play, limp, carry · To what, where: awfully tender, bandages, one, arms, slings

This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter IX. THE NEVER BIRD. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Next day, awfully tender, bandages), 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	Next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 day	amod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tender	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 day	punct
4	however	however	ADV	_	9 tender	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 however	punct
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 tender	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 tender	cop
8	awfully	awfully	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 tender	amod
9	tender	tender	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 gave	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 gave	cc
12	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 tender	acl:relcl
13	out	out	ADP	_	12 gave	compound:prt
14	bandages	bandage	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 gave	obj
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 one	case
16	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	17 one	det
17	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 gave	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 played	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 played	cc
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 played	nsubj
21	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 tender	conj
22	till	till	ADP	_	25 time	case
23	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 time	compound
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 bed	punct
25	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 played	obl
26	at	at	SCONJ	_	27 limping	mark
27	limping	limp	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 played	advcl
28	about	about	ADV	_	27 limping	advmod
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 carrying	cc
30	carrying	carry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 limping	conj
31	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 arms	nmod:poss
32	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 carrying	obj
33	in	in	ADP	_	34 slings	case
34	slings	sling	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 carrying	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 tender	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Next day	awfully tender				however property	tree rules
2	give out	past	awfully tender not said here	bandages	every one				vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent bandage=Theme to one=Recipient
3	play	past	bandages = bandage				time		vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	limp	gerund	bandages = bandage not said here					about property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	carry	gerund	bandages = bandage not said here	bandages's arms		slings			vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent arm=Value in sling=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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