Peter Pan, Chapter X. THE HAPPY HOME, sentence 96

So they were told they could dance, but they must put on their nighties first.

Who acts: People · What happens: tell, dance, put · To what, where: People, nighties · 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 (People), 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 told	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	nsubj:pass
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 told	aux:pass
4	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 dance	nsubj
6	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 dance	aux
7	dance	dance	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 told	ccomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 put	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 put	cc
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 put	nsubj
11	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 put	aux
12	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 told	conj
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 nighties	case
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 nighties	nmod:poss
15	nighties	nightie	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 put	obl
16	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	12 put	advmod
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past · passive		People			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
2	dance	could	People				vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	put	must	People		People's nighties	first property	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on nightie=Destination

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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