Peter Pan, Chapter X. THE HAPPY HOME, sentence 66

While she sewed they played around her; such a group of happy faces and dancing limbs lit up by that romantic fire.

Who acts: telling, things · What happens: sew, play, lit up · To what, where: group, happy faces

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, things), 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	While	while	SCONJ	_	3 sewed	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sewed	nsubj
3	sewed	sew	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 played	nsubj
5	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sewed	ccomp
6	around	around	ADP	_	7 her	case
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 played	obl
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 group	punct
9	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	11 group	det:predet
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 group	det
11	group	group	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sewed	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 faces	case
13	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 faces	amod
14	faces	face	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 group	nmod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 limbs	cc
16	dancing	dancing	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 limbs	compound
17	limbs	limb	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 faces	conj
18	lit	lit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 faces	acl
19	up	up	ADP	_	18 lit	compound:prt
20	by	by	ADP	_	23 fire	case
21	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	23 fire	det
22	romantic	romantic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 fire	amod
23	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 lit	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sewed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	sew	past	telling	such group of happy faces and dancing limbs		tree rules
2	play	past	things = thing		around telling	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	lit up	participle		happy faces and dancing limbs not said here	by that romantic fire	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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