Peter Pan, Chapter XVI. THE RETURN HOME, sentence 72

It is a pity we did it, for she has started up, calling their names; and there is no one in the room but Nana.

Who acts: whisper, we, hand, one, brats · What happens: be, do, start up, call, name · To what, where: pity, whisper, names · 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 (whisper, we, hand, 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 pity	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 pity	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 pity	det
4	pity	pity	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 did	nsubj
6	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 pity	acl:relcl
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 did	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 started	punct
9	for	for	SCONJ	_	12 started	mark
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 started	nsubj
11	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 started	aux
12	started	start	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 did	conj
13	up	up	ADP	_	12 started	compound:prt
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 calling	punct
15	calling	call	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 started	advcl
16	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 names	nmod:poss
17	names	name	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 calling	obj
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 is	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 is	cc
20	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	21 is	expl
21	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 pity	parataxis
22	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	23 one	det
23	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 is	nsubj
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 room	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 room	det
26	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 one	nmod
27	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 Nana	cc
28	Nana	Nana	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 room	conj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 pity	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is a	present	whisper	a pity		tree rules
2	do	past	we	whisper		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
3	start up	present · perfect	hand			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
4	call	gerund	hand not said here	brats's names		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent name=Recipient
5	be	present	no one in the room but Nana		there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	name		brats = brat			nom name «communication 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.

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