Peter Pan, Chapter XVI. THE RETURN HOME, sentence 74

Nana had filmy eyes, but all she could do was put her paw gently on her mistress’s lap; and they were sitting together thus when the kennel was brought back.

Who acts: Nana, hand, all, names · What happens: have, do, be, sit, bring back · To what, where: filmy eyes, lap, kennel

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 (Nana, hand, all, names), 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	Nana	Nana	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	filmy	filmy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 eyes	amod
4	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 had	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 put	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 put	cc
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 put	nsubj:outer
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 do	nsubj
9	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 do	aux
10	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 all	acl:relcl
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 put	cop
12	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 had	conj
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 paw	nmod:poss
14	paw	paw	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 put	obj
15	gently	gently	ADV	_	12 put	advmod
16	on	on	ADP	_	20 lap	case
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 mistress	nmod:poss
18	mistress	mistress	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 lap	nmod:poss
19	’s	's	PART	_	18 mistress	case
20	lap	lap	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 put	obl
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 sitting	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 sitting	cc
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 sitting	nsubj
24	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 sitting	aux
25	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 had	conj
26	together	together	ADV	_	25 sitting	advmod
27	thus	thus	ADV	_	32 brought	advmod
28	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	32 brought	advmod
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 kennel	det
30	kennel	kennel	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 brought	nsubj:pass
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 brought	aux:pass
32	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 sitting	advcl
33	back	back	ADV	_	32 brought	advmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	Nana	filmy eyes			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient
2	do	could	hand				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	all		hand's mistress's lap	gently, put property	tree rules
4	sit	past · progressive	names = name			together property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	bring back	past · passive		the kennel		thus property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: subject=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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