Peter Pan, Chapter XVI. THE RETURN HOME, sentence 110

He peeped in again to see why the music had stopped, and now he saw that Mrs. Darling had laid her head on the box, and that two tears were sitting on her eyes.

Who acts: Wendy, Mrs., two tears · What happens: peep, see, stop, lay, sit · To what, where: music, head, box, eyes · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XVI. THE RETURN HOME. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wendy, Mrs., two tears), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 peeped	nsubj
2	peeped	peep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADV	_	2 peeped	advmod
4	again	again	ADV	_	2 peeped	advmod
5	to	to	PART	_	6 see	mark
6	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 peeped	advcl
7	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	11 stopped	advmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 music	det
9	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 stopped	nsubj:pass
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 stopped	aux
11	stopped	stop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 see	ccomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 saw	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 saw	cc
14	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 saw	advmod
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 saw	nsubj
16	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 peeped	parataxis
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 laid	mark
18	Mrs.	Mrs.	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 laid	nsubj
19	Darling	Darling	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Mrs.	flat
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 laid	aux
21	laid	lay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 saw	ccomp
22	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 head	nmod:poss
23	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 laid	obj
24	on	on	ADP	_	26 box	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 box	det
26	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 laid	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 sitting	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 sitting	cc
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	33 sitting	mark
30	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	31 tears	nummod
31	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 sitting	nsubj
32	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 sitting	aux
33	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 saw	conj
34	on	on	ADP	_	36 eyes	case
35	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 eyes	nmod:poss
36	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 sitting	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 peeped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	peep	past	Wendy			again	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	see	to-infinitive	Wendy not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	stop	past · perfect · passive		the music			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality
4	see	past	Wendy			now	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	lay	past · perfect	Mrs.	Mrs.'s head	the box		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme on box=Destination
6	sit	past · progressive	two tears		Mrs.'s eyes		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on eye=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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