Peter Pan, Chapter XVII. WHEN WENDY GREW UP, sentence 246

When Wendy returned diffidently she found Peter sitting on the bed-post crowing gloriously, while Jane in her nighty was flying round the room in solemn ecstasy.

Who acts: Wendy, Jane, Peter, bed post · What happens: return, find, sit, crow, fly · To what, where: Peter, bed post, solemn ecstasy

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, Peter, bed post), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 returned	advmod
2	Wendy	Wendy	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 returned	nsubj
3	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 found	advcl
4	diffidently	diffidently	ADV	_	3 returned	advmod
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 found	nsubj
6	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 found	obj
8	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 found	xcomp
9	on	on	ADP	_	13 post	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 post	det
11	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 post	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 bed	punct
13	post	post	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sitting	obl
14	crowing	crow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 post	acl
15	gloriously	gloriously	ADV	_	14 crowing	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 flying	punct
17	while	while	SCONJ	_	23 flying	mark
18	Jane	Jane	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 flying	nsubj
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 nighty	case
20	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 nighty	nmod:poss
21	nighty	nighty	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 Jane	nmod
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 flying	aux
23	flying	fly	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 sitting	advcl
24	round	round	ADP	_	26 room	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 room	det
26	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 flying	obl
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 ecstasy	case
28	solemn	solemn	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 ecstasy	amod
29	ecstasy	ecstasy	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 flying	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	return	past	Wendy			diffidently property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	find	past	Jane	Peter			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent peter=Attribute clause=Theme
3	sit	gerund	Peter not said here		the bed post		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on post=Location
4	crow	gerund	the bed post not said here			gloriously property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	fly	past · progressive	Jane in Jane's nighty		solemn ecstasy	round the room	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent in ecstasy=Location

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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