Peter Pan, Chapter XVI. THE RETURN HOME, sentence 96

Now it was his turn to beg her pardon; and she went into the day-nursery and played, and soon he was asleep; and while he slept, Wendy and John and Michael flew into the room.

Who acts: window, George, man, Wendy · What happens: be, beg, go, play, sleep, fly · To what, where: turn, pardon, day nursery, room

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 (window, George, man, Wendy), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 turn	advmod
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 turn	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 turn	cop
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 turn	nmod:poss
5	turn	turn	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 beg	mark
7	beg	beg	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 turn	acl
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 pardon	nmod:poss
9	pardon	pardon	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 beg	obj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 went	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 went	cc
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 went	nsubj
13	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 turn	parataxis
14	into	into	ADP	_	18 nursery	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 nursery	det
16	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 nursery	compound
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 day	punct
18	nursery	nursery	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 went	obl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 played	cc
20	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 went	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 asleep	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 asleep	cc
23	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	26 asleep	advmod
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 asleep	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 asleep	cop
26	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 played	advcl
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	38 flew	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 flew	cc
29	while	while	SCONJ	_	31 slept	mark
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 slept	nsubj
31	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 flew	advcl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 slept	punct
33	Wendy	Wendy	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 flew	nsubj
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 John	cc
35	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 Wendy	conj
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 Michael	cc
37	Michael	Michael	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 Wendy	conj
38	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 went	conj
39	into	into	ADP	_	41 room	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 room	det
41	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 flew	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 turn	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	window	man's turn		now		tree rules
2	beg speech: request	to-infinitive		George's pardon				vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent pardon=Recipient
3	go	past	George		the day nursery			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into nursery=Initial_Location
4	play	past	George not said here					vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is	past	man				asleep, soon property	tree rules
6	sleep	past	man					vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	fly	past	Wendy and John and Michael				into the room result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into room=Result
8	pardon		George					nom pardon «act 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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