Peter Pan, Chapter X. THE HAPPY HOME, sentence 18

The day, as if quietly gathering its forces, had been almost uneventful, and now the redskins in their blankets were at their posts above, while, below, the children were having their evening meal; all except Peter, who had gone out to get the time.

Who acts: day, redskins, children, Peter · What happens: gather, be, have, go out, get · To what, where: forces, posts, evening meal

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 (day, redskins, children, Peter), 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	2 day	det
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 uneventful	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 gathering	punct
4	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 gathering	mark
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 gathering	mark
6	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	7 gathering	advmod
7	gathering	gather	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 day	acl
8	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 forces	nmod:poss
9	forces	force	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 gathering	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 day	punct
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 uneventful	aux
12	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 uneventful	cop
13	almost	almost	ADV	_	14 uneventful	advmod
14	uneventful	uneventful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 posts	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 posts	cc
17	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	26 posts	advmod
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 redskins	det
19	redskins	redskin	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 posts	nsubj
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 blankets	case
21	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 blankets	nmod:poss
22	blankets	blanket	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 redskins	nmod
23	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 posts	cop
24	at	at	ADP	_	26 posts	case
25	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 posts	nmod:poss
26	posts	post	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 uneventful	conj
27	above	above	ADV	_	26 posts	advmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 having	punct
29	while	while	SCONJ	_	36 having	mark
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 below	punct
31	below	below	ADV	_	36 having	advmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 below	punct
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 children	det
34	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 having	nsubj
35	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 having	aux
36	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 uneventful	conj
37	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 meal	nmod:poss
38	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 meal	compound
39	meal	meal	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 having	obj
40	;	;	PUNCT	_	47 gone	punct
41	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	43 Peter	det
42	except	except	ADP	_	43 Peter	case
43	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	47 gone	nsubj
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 gone	punct
45	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	47 gone	nsubj
46	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 gone	aux
47	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 uneventful	parataxis
48	out	out	ADV	_	47 gone	advmod
49	to	to	PART	_	50 get	mark
50	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	47 gone	advcl
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 time	det
52	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 get	obj
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 uneventful	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gather a condition, not said to happen	gerund	the day not said here	squaw's forces			quietly property	vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent force=Theme
2	is	past · perfect				day	almost, uneventful property	tree rules
3	is	past	the redskins in redskins's blankets		redskins's posts	now	above property	tree rules
4	have	past · progressive	the children	redskins's evening meal			below property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meal=Patient
5	go out	past · perfect	all Peter				out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	get	to-infinitive	all Peter not said here			time		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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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