Peter Pan, Chapter XVI. THE RETURN HOME, sentence 153

She sat down in the chair by the fire, where in the old days she had nursed them.

Who acts: Mrs. · What happens: sit down, nurse · To what, where: chair, Mrs.

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 (Mrs.), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sat	nsubj
2	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	down	down	ADP	_	2 sat	compound:prt
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 chair	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 chair	det
6	chair	chair	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sat	obl
7	by	by	ADP	_	9 fire	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 fire	det
9	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sat	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 nursed	punct
11	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	18 nursed	advmod
12	in	in	ADP	_	15 days	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 days	det
14	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 days	amod
15	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 nursed	obl
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 nursed	nsubj:pass
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 nursed	aux
18	nursed	nurse	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 sat	conj
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 nursed	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit down	past	Mrs.			the chair		by the fire	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in chair=Location
2	nurse	past · perfect · passive		Mrs.			day		vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient they=Theme

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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