Peter Pan, Chapter XIII. DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES?, sentence 42

Then he lay down on the bed outside the coverlet, to vex her still more; for she had always tucked them inside it, because you never know that you may not grow chilly at the turn of the night.

Who acts: Peter, Wendy, you · What happens: lie down, vex, tuck, not know, not grow · To what, where: bed, Wendy, difficulties, turn · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Peter, Wendy, you), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 lay	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 lay	nsubj
3	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	down	down	ADV	_	3 lay	advmod
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 bed	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bed	det
7	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lay	obl
8	outside	outside	ADP	_	10 coverlet	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 coverlet	det
10	coverlet	coverlet	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bed	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 vex	punct
12	to	to	PART	_	13 vex	mark
13	vex	vex	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 lay	conj
14	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 vex	obj
15	still	still	ADV	_	16 more	advmod
16	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	13 vex	advmod
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 tucked	punct
18	for	for	SCONJ	_	22 tucked	mark
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 tucked	nsubj
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 tucked	aux
21	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	22 tucked	advmod
22	tucked	tuck	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 lay	conj
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 tucked	obj
24	inside	inside	ADP	_	25 it	case
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 tucked	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 know	punct
27	because	because	SCONJ	_	30 know	mark
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	30 know	nsubj
29	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	30 know	advmod
30	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 tucked	conj
31	that	that	SCONJ	_	35 grow	mark
32	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	35 grow	nsubj
33	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 grow	aux
34	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	35 grow	advmod
35	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 know	ccomp
36	chilly	chilly	ADV	_	35 grow	advmod
37	at	at	ADP	_	39 turn	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 turn	det
39	turn	turn	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 grow	obl
40	of	of	ADP	_	42 night	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 night	det
42	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 turn	nmod
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie down	past	Peter		the bed outside the coverlet	then	down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on bed=Location
2	vex	to-infinitive	Peter not said here	Wendy				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer
3	tuck	past · perfect	Wendy	difficulties = difficulty	bed		always property	vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent they=Theme inside it=Trajectory
4	not know	present	you					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	not grow	may	you		the turn of the night		chilly property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at turn=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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