Peter Pan, Chapter XVII. WHEN WENDY GREW UP, sentence 234

He sat down on the floor instead and sobbed; and Wendy did not know how to comfort him, though she could have done it so easily once.

Who acts: dagger, Wendy, baby · What happens: sit down, sob, not know, comfort, do · To what, where: floor, dagger · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (dagger, Wendy, baby), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sat	nsubj
2	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	down	down	ADP	_	2 sat	compound:prt
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 floor	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 floor	det
6	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sat	obl
7	instead	instead	ADV	_	9 sobbed	advmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 sobbed	cc
9	sobbed	sob	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 sat	advcl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 know	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 know	cc
12	Wendy	Wendy	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 know	nsubj
13	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 know	aux
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 know	advmod
15	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 sat	parataxis
16	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	18 comfort	advmod
17	to	to	PART	_	18 comfort	mark
18	comfort	comfort	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 know	ccomp
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 comfort	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 done	punct
21	though	though	SCONJ	_	25 done	mark
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 done	nsubj
23	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 done	aux
24	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 done	aux
25	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 know	ccomp
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 done	obj
27	so	so	ADV	_	28 easily	advmod
28	easily	easily	ADV	_	25 done	advmod
29	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	25 done	advmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sit down	past	dagger		the floor		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on floor=Location
2	sob	participle	dagger not said here			instead property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	not know	past · do-support	Wendy				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	comfort	to-infinitive		dagger			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer
5	do	could · perfect	baby	floor		easily, once property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

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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