Peter Pan, Chapter X. THE HAPPY HOME, sentence 62

She told them to clear away, and sat down to her work-basket, a heavy load of stockings and every knee with a hole in it as usual.

Who acts: telling · What happens: tell, clear away, sit down · To what, where: spinsters, hole · 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 (telling), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 told	nsubj
2	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 told	iobj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 clear	mark
5	clear	clear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 told	xcomp
6	away	away	ADV	_	5 clear	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 sat	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 sat	cc
9	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 told	conj
10	down	down	ADP	_	9 sat	compound:prt
11	to	to	ADP	_	15 basket	case
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 basket	nmod:poss
13	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 basket	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 work	punct
15	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sat	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 load	punct
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 load	det
18	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 load	amod
19	load	load	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 basket	appos
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 stockings	case
21	stockings	stocking	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 load	nmod
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 knee	cc
23	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	24 knee	det
24	knee	knee	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 basket	conj
25	with	with	ADP	_	27 hole	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 hole	det
27	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sat	obl
28	in	in	ADP	_	29 it	case
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 sat	obl
30	as	as	ADP	_	31 usual	case
31	usual	usual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 sat	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	telling	spinsters = spinster			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
2	clear away not said to happen	to-infinitive	telling not said here			away property	vn clear-10.3-1 «NP.Source V»: agent=Source
3	sit down	past	telling not said here		hole	to telling's work basket and every knee; with a hole; as usual	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in it=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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