Peter Pan, Chapter XVI. THE RETURN HOME, sentence 112

He peeped again, and the tears were still there, or another two had taken their place.

Who acts: Wendy, tears · What happens: peep, be, take · To what, where: two

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, 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	again	again	ADV	_	2 peeped	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 there	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 there	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 tears	det
7	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 there	nsubj
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 there	cop
9	still	still	ADV	_	10 there	advmod
10	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 peeped	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 taken	punct
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	16 taken	cc
13	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	14 two	det
14	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 taken	nsubj:pass
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 taken	aux
16	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 peeped	parataxis
17	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 place	nmod:poss
18	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 taken	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 peeped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	peep	past	Wendy		again		vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	the tears		still	there property	tree rules
3	take	past · perfect · passive		another two			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme place=Destination

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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