Peter Pan, Chapter XII. THE CHILDREN ARE CARRIED OFF, sentence 62

Now Smee had found the tom-tom, and was at that moment sitting on it.

Who acts: moment · What happens: find, be, sit · To what, where: Smee, tom

This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XII. THE CHILDREN ARE CARRIED OFF. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (moment), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 found	advmod
2	Smee	Smee	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 found	nsubj:pass
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 found	aux
4	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 tom	det
6	tom	tom	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tom	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 tom	punct
8	tom	tom	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 found	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 moment	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 moment	cc
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 moment	cop
12	at	at	ADP	_	14 moment	case
13	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 moment	det
14	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 found	obl:unmarked
15	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 moment	acl
16	on	on	ADP	_	17 it	case
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 sitting	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	find	past · perfect · passive		Smee		now	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme tom=Attribute
2	is	past				at that moment	tree rules
3	sit	gerund	that moment not said here		tom		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on 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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