Peter Pan, Chapter XIII. DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES?, sentence 47

At such times it had been Wendy’s custom to take him out of bed and sit with him on her lap, soothing him in dear ways of her own invention, and when he grew calmer to put him back to bed before he quite woke up, so that he should not know of the indignity to which she had subjected him.

Who acts: riddle, Peter, Wendy · What happens: be, take, sit, soothe, grow, put back · To what, where: custom, Peter, bed, lap, dear ways, Wendy

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 (riddle, Peter, Wendy), 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	At	at	ADP	_	3 times	case
2	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 times	amod
3	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 custom	obl
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 custom	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 custom	aux
6	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 custom	cop
7	Wendy	Wendy	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 custom	nmod:poss
8	’s	's	PART	_	7 Wendy	case
9	custom	custom	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	to	to	PART	_	11 take	mark
11	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 custom	acl
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 take	obj
13	out	out	ADP	_	15 bed	case
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 bed	case
15	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 take	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 sit	cc
17	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 take	conj
18	with	with	ADP	_	19 him	case
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 sit	obl
20	on	on	ADP	_	22 lap	case
21	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 lap	nmod:poss
22	lap	lap	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 sit	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 soothing	punct
24	soothing	soothe	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 sit	advcl
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 soothing	obj
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 ways	case
27	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 ways	amod
28	ways	way	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 soothing	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	32 invention	case
30	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 invention	nmod:poss
31	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 invention	amod
32	invention	invention	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 ways	nmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 grew	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 grew	cc
35	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	37 grew	advmod
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 grew	nsubj
37	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 custom	conj
38	calmer	calm	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	37 grew	xcomp
39	to	to	PART	_	40 put	mark
40	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 grew	advcl
41	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 put	obj
42	back	back	ADV	_	40 put	advmod
43	to	to	ADP	_	44 bed	case
44	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 put	obl
45	before	before	SCONJ	_	48 woke	mark
46	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 woke	nsubj
47	quite	quite	ADV	_	48 woke	advmod
48	woke	wake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 put	advcl
49	up	up	ADP	_	48 woke	compound:prt
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 know	punct
51	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	56 know	mark
52	that	that	SCONJ	_	51 so	fixed
53	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	56 know	nsubj
54	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	56 know	aux
55	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	56 know	advmod
56	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	48 woke	conj
57	of	of	ADP	_	59 indignity	case
58	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	59 indignity	det
59	indignity	indignity	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 know	obl
60	to	to	ADP	_	61 which	case
61	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	64 subjected	obl
62	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	64 subjected	nsubj:pass
63	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	64 subjected	aux
64	subjected	subject	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	59 indignity	acl:relcl
65	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	64 subjected	obj
66	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 custom	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past · perfect	riddle	Wendy's custom			time		tree rules
2	take	to-infinitive		Peter		bed			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent he=Theme out bed=Initial_Location
3	sit	infinitive				Wendy's lap		with Peter	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on lap=Location
4	soothe	gerund		Peter		dear ways of Wendy's own invention			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer
5	grow	past	Peter					calm property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	put back	to-infinitive	Peter not said here		Peter			to bed	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Goal
7	wake up	past	Peter						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
8	not know	should	Peter					of the indignity	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of indignity=Stimulus
9	subject	past · perfect · passive		Wendy				to the indignity	tree rules
10	invent		Wendy						nom invention «cognition transitive»: poss=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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/14/47/