Peter Pan, Chapter XIII. DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES?, sentence 134

There were no children there, and it was night time; but he addressed all who might be dreaming of the Neverland, and who were therefore nearer to him than you think: boys and girls in their nighties, and naked papooses in their baskets hung from trees.

Who acts: children, nature, Peter, all, you · What happens: be, address, dream, think, hang · To what, where: night time, boys, Peter, baskets, trees

This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XIII. DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES?. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (children, nature, Peter, all), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 were	expl
2	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 addressed	advcl
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 children	det
4	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 were	nsubj
5	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 were	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 time	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 time	cc
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 time	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 time	cop
10	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 time	compound
11	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 were	obl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 addressed	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 addressed	cc
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 addressed	nsubj
15	addressed	address	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	20 dreaming	nsubj
17	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 dreaming	nsubj
18	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 dreaming	aux
19	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 dreaming	aux
20	dreaming	dream	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 addressed	ccomp
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 Neverland	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 Neverland	det
23	Neverland	Neverland	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 dreaming	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 nearer	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 nearer	cc
26	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 nearer	nsubj
27	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 nearer	cop
28	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	29 nearer	advmod
29	nearer	near	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	15 addressed	parataxis
30	to	to	ADP	_	31 him	case
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 nearer	obl
32	than	than	SCONJ	_	34 think	mark
33	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	34 think	nsubj
34	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 nearer	advcl
35	:	:	PUNCT	_	36 boys	punct
36	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 addressed	obl
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 girls	cc
38	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 boys	conj
39	in	in	ADP	_	41 nighties	case
40	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 nighties	nmod:poss
41	nighties	nightie	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 boys	nmod
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 papooses	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 papooses	cc
44	naked	naked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 papooses	amod
45	papooses	papoose	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 boys	conj
46	in	in	ADP	_	48 baskets	case
47	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	48 baskets	nmod:poss
48	baskets	basket	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 papooses	nmod
49	hung	hang	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	48 baskets	acl
50	from	from	ADP	_	51 trees	case
51	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 hung	obl
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 addressed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	no children			there; there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	past	nature	night time				tree rules
3	address	past	Peter	boys in children's nighties and girls and naked papooses in children's baskets				tree rules
4	dream	might · progressive	all				of the Neverland	vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
5	is	past			Peter		near, therefore property	tree rules
6	think speech: other	present	you					vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	hang	participle		children's baskets not said here		trees		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: 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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