Peter Pan, Chapter XVI. THE RETURN HOME, sentence 124

They alighted on the floor, quite unashamed of themselves, and the youngest one had already forgotten his home.

Who acts: laws, youngest one · What happens: alight, unasham, forget · To what, where: floor, home

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 (laws, youngest one), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 alighted	nsubj
2	alighted	alight	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 floor	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 floor	det
5	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 alighted	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 unashamed	punct
7	quite	quite	ADV	_	8 unashamed	advmod
8	unashamed	unasham	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 alighted	conj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 themselves	case
10	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	8 unashamed	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 forgotten	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 forgotten	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 one	det
14	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	15 one	amod
15	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 forgotten	nsubj
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 forgotten	aux
17	already	already	ADV	_	18 forgotten	advmod
18	forgotten	forget	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 alighted	advcl
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 home	nmod:poss
20	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 forgotten	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 alighted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	alight	participle	laws = law		the floor		tree rules
2	unasham	participle	laws = law not said here			of laws = law	tree rules
3	forget	past · perfect	the youngest one	Wendy's home			tree rules

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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