Peter Pan, Chapter XIII. DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES?, sentence 28

The first thing he did on finding himself alone in the fast falling night was to tiptoe to Slightly’s tree, and make sure that it provided him with a passage.

Who acts: first thing, thing, house · What happens: do, find, fall, tiptoe, make, provide · To what, where: thing, tree

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 (first thing, thing, house), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 thing	det
2	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 thing	amod
3	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 did	nsubj
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 did	nsubj
5	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	on	on	SCONJ	_	7 finding	mark
7	finding	find	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 did	advcl
8	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	7 finding	obj
9	alone	alone	ADV	_	7 finding	advmod
10	in	in	ADP	_	14 night	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 night	det
12	fast	fast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 night	amod
13	falling	fall	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 night	amod
14	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 finding	obl
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 night	acl
16	to	to	PART	_	17 tiptoe	mark
17	tiptoe	tiptoe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 was	xcomp
18	to	to	ADP	_	21 tree	case
19	Slightly	Slightly	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 tree	nmod:poss
20	’s	's	PART	_	19 Slightly	case
21	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 tiptoe	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 make	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 make	cc
24	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 did	conj
25	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 make	xcomp
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 provided	mark
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 provided	nsubj
28	provided	provide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 sure	ccomp
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 provided	iobj
30	with	with	ADP	_	32 passage	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 passage	det
32	passage	passage	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 provided	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	the first thing						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	find	gerund	the first thing not said here	thing			night	alone property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic
3	fall	gerund							vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	tiptoe	to-infinitive	thing not said here			Slightly's tree			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to tree=Destination
5	make	infinitive	the first thing not said here					sure property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
6	provide	past	house		thing			with a passage	vn fulfilling-13.4.1-2 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Recipient with passage=Theme

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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