Peter Pan, Chapter X. THE HAPPY HOME, sentence 20

The meal happened to be a make-believe tea, and they sat around the board, guzzling in their greed; and really, what with their chatter and recriminations, the noise, as Wendy said, was positively deafening.

Who acts: meal, children, Wendy · What happens: happen, be, believe, sit, guzzle, say · To what, where: make, tea, board, greed · 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 (meal, children, Wendy), 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 meal	det
2	meal	meal	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happened	nsubj
3	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	7 make	mark
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 make	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 make	det
7	make	make	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happened	obl
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 believe	punct
9	believe	believe	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	7 make	parataxis
10	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 believe	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 sat	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 sat	cc
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 sat	nsubj
14	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happened	parataxis
15	around	around	ADP	_	17 board	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 board	det
17	board	board	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sat	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 guzzling	punct
19	guzzling	guzzle	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 sat	advcl
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 greed	case
21	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 greed	nmod:poss
22	greed	greed	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 guzzling	obl
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 what	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 what	cc
25	really	really	ADV	_	27 what	advmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 what	punct
27	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happened	parataxis
28	with	with	ADP	_	30 chatter	case
29	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 chatter	nmod:poss
30	chatter	chatter	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 what	nmod
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 recriminations	cc
32	recriminations	recrimination	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 chatter	conj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 noise	punct
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 noise	det
35	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 chatter	conj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 said	punct
37	as	as	SCONJ	_	39 said	mark
38	Wendy	Wendy	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 said	nsubj
39	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happened	parataxis
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 deafening	punct
41	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 deafening	aux
42	positively	positively	ADV	_	43 deafening	advmod
43	deafening	deafen	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	39 said	ccomp
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 happened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	happen	past	the meal				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	to-infinitive		a make			tree rules
3	believe	infinitive		tea			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tea=Stimulus
4	sit	past	children = child		the board		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent around board=Location
5	guzzle	gerund	children = child not said here		children's greed		vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	say speech: assert	past	Wendy				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	deafen	past · progressive				positively property	vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent
8	chatter		children = child				nom chatter «communication intransitive»: poss=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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