Peter Pan, Chapter XI. WENDY’S STORY, sentence 123

Nibs had to knock twice before he got an answer, though Tink had really been sitting up in bed listening for some time.

Who acts: Nibs, first, Tink · What happens: have, knock, get, sit up, listen · To what, where: answer, bed

This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XI. WENDY’S STORY. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Nibs, first, Tink), 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	Nibs	nib	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 knock	mark
4	knock	knock	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 had	xcomp
5	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 knock	advmod
6	before	before	SCONJ	_	8 got	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 got	nsubj
8	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 knock	advcl
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 answer	det
10	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 got	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 sitting	punct
12	though	though	SCONJ	_	17 sitting	mark
13	Tink	Tink	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 sitting	nsubj
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 sitting	aux
15	really	really	ADV	_	17 sitting	advmod
16	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 sitting	aux
17	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 had	conj
18	up	up	ADP	_	17 sitting	compound:prt
19	in	in	ADP	_	20 bed	case
20	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 sitting	obl
21	listening	listen	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 sitting	advcl
22	for	for	ADP	_	24 time	case
23	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	24 time	det
24	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 listening	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	Nibs					tree rules
2	knock	to-infinitive	Nibs not said here				twice property	vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
3	get	past	first	a answer				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer answer=Stimulus
4	sit up	past · perfect · progressive	Tink		bed			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in bed=Location
5	listen	gerund	Tink not said here			time		vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=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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