Peter Pan, Chapter XVII. WHEN WENDY GREW UP, sentence 136

Once a week Jane’s nurse had her evening off; and then it was Wendy’s part to put Jane to bed.

Who acts: nurse, bed · What happens: have off, be, put · To what, where: part, Jane

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 (nurse, bed), 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	Once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	7 had	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 week	det
3	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Once	obl:unmarked
4	Jane	Jane	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 nurse	nmod:poss
5	’s	's	PART	_	4 Jane	case
6	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 had	nsubj
7	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 evening	nmod:poss
9	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 had	obj
10	off	off	ADP	_	7 had	compound:prt
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 part	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 part	cc
13	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 part	advmod
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 part	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 part	cop
16	Wendy	Wendy	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 part	nmod:poss
17	’s	's	PART	_	16 Wendy	case
18	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 had	conj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 put	mark
20	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 part	acl
21	Jane	Jane	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 put	obj
22	to	to	ADP	_	23 bed	case
23	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 put	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	have off	past	Jane's nurse			evening	once property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	bed	Wendy's part		then		tree rules
3	put	to-infinitive	Jane's nurse not said here		Jane		to bed	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent jane=Goal

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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