Peter Pan, Chapter X. THE HAPPY HOME, sentence 149

Usually when she began to tell this story he left the room or put his hands over his ears; and possibly if he had done either of those things this time they might all still be on the island.

Who acts: Peter, Wendy, stories · What happens: begin, tell, leave, put, do, be · To what, where: story, room, hands, ears, either, island · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter X. THE HAPPY HOME. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Peter, Wendy, stories), 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	Usually	usually	ADV	_	4 began	advmod
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 began	advmod
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 began	nsubj
4	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 tell	mark
6	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 began	xcomp
7	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 story	det
8	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tell	obj
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 left	nsubj
10	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 story	acl:relcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 room	det
12	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 left	obj
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 put	cc
14	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 tell	conj
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 hands	nmod:poss
16	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 put	obj
17	over	over	ADP	_	19 ears	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 ears	nmod:poss
19	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 put	obl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 done	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 done	cc
22	possibly	possibly	ADV	_	26 done	advmod
23	if	if	SCONJ	_	26 done	mark
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 done	nsubj
25	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 done	aux
26	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 began	conj
27	either	either	DET	PronType=Ind	26 done	obj
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 things	case
29	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	30 things	det
30	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 either	nmod
31	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	32 time	det
32	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 island	obl:unmarked
33	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 island	nsubj
34	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 island	aux
35	all	all	ADV	_	40 island	advmod
36	still	still	ADV	_	40 island	advmod
37	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	40 island	cop
38	on	on	ADP	_	40 island	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 island	det
40	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 things	nmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	Peter				usually property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	Peter not said here	this story				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient
3	leave	past	Wendy	the room				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=Theme
4	put	infinitive	Peter not said here	Wendy's hands	Wendy's ears			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hand=Theme over ear=Destination
5	do a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	Wendy	either			possibly property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent either=Eventuality
6	is	might	stories = story		the island	still; time	all property	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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