Peter Pan, Chapter XVII. WHEN WENDY GREW UP, sentence 132

It was Jane’s nursery now, for her father had bought it at the three per cents from Wendy’s father, who was no longer fond of stairs.

Who acts: flight, father · What happens: be, buy · To what, where: nursery, flight, three cents

This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XVII. WHEN WENDY GREW UP. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (flight, father), 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	5 nursery	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 nursery	cop
3	Jane	Jane	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 nursery	nmod:poss
4	’s	's	PART	_	3 Jane	case
5	nursery	nursery	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 nursery	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 bought	punct
8	for	for	SCONJ	_	12 bought	mark
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 father	nmod:poss
10	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 bought	nsubj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 bought	aux
12	bought	buy	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 nursery	conj
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 bought	obj
14	at	at	ADP	_	18 cents	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 cents	det
16	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 cents	nummod
17	per	per	ADP	_	18 cents	case
18	cents	cent	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 bought	obl
19	from	from	ADP	_	22 father	case
20	Wendy	Wendy	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 father	nmod:poss
21	’s	's	PART	_	20 Wendy	case
22	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 cents	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 fond	punct
24	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 fond	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 fond	cop
26	no	no	ADV	_	27 longer	advmod
27	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	28 fond	advmod
28	fond	fond	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 father	acl:relcl
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 stairs	case
30	stairs	stair	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 fond	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 nursery	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	flight	Jane's nursery		now		tree rules
2	buy	past · perfect	most's father	flight	the three cents from Wendy's father			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent it=Theme at cent=Asset
3	is	past	Wendy's father				of stairs; fond, long property	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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