Peter Pan, Chapter XVII. WHEN WENDY GREW UP, sentence 186

Wendy was sitting on the floor, very close to the fire, so as to see to darn, for there was no other light in the nursery; and while she sat darning she heard a crow.

Who acts: Wendy, Jane · What happens: sit, see, darn, be, hear · To what, where: floor, other light, nursery, crow

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 (Wendy, Jane), 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	Wendy	Wendy	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 sitting	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sitting	aux
3	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 floor	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 floor	det
6	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sitting	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 close	punct
8	very	very	ADV	_	9 close	advmod
9	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sitting	advcl
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 fire	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 fire	det
12	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 close	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 see	punct
14	so	so	ADV	_	17 see	advmod
15	as	as	SCONJ	_	17 see	mark
16	to	to	PART	_	17 see	mark
17	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 sitting	advcl
18	to	to	PART	_	19 darn	mark
19	darn	darn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 see	xcomp
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 light	punct
21	for	for	SCONJ	_	23 was	mark
22	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	23 was	expl
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 light	cop
24	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	26 light	det
25	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 light	amod
26	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 darn	obl
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 nursery	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 nursery	det
29	nursery	nursery	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 light	nmod
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 sat	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 sat	cc
32	while	while	SCONJ	_	34 sat	mark
33	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 sat	nsubj
34	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sitting	parataxis
35	darning	darn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	34 sat	advcl
36	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 heard	nsubj
37	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 darning	ccomp
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 crow	det
39	crow	crow	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 heard	obj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sitting	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	sit	past · progressive	Wendy		the floor	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on floor=Location
2	see	to-infinitive	Wendy not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	darn	to-infinitive	Wendy not said here			tree rules
4	is a	past		no other light	the nursery	tree rules
5	sit	past	Jane			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	darn	gerund	Jane not said here			tree rules
7	hear	past	Jane	a crow		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer crow=Stimulus

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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