Peter Pan, Chapter XVII. WHEN WENDY GREW UP, sentence 259

Jane is now a common grown-up, with a daughter called Margaret; and every spring cleaning time, except when he forgets, Peter comes for Margaret and takes her to the Neverland, where she tells him stories about himself, to which he listens eagerly.

Who acts: Jane, spring, figure, Peter · What happens: grow up, be, call, clean, forget, come · To what, where: common grown daughter, Jane, Neverland, stories, figure · 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 (Jane, spring, figure, Peter), 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	Jane	Jane	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 daughter	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 daughter	cop
3	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 daughter	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 daughter	det
5	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 daughter	amod
6	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 daughter	amod
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 up	punct
8	up	up	ADP	_	6 grown	compound:prt
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 daughter	punct
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 daughter	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 daughter	det
12	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
13	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 daughter	acl
14	Margaret	Margaret	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 called	xcomp
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 cleaning	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 cleaning	cc
17	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	18 spring	det
18	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 cleaning	nsubj
19	cleaning	clean	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 daughter	conj
20	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 cleaning	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 forgets	punct
22	except	except	ADP	_	25 forgets	mark
23	when	when	SCONJ	_	25 forgets	mark
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 forgets	nsubj
25	forgets	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 cleaning	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 comes	punct
27	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 comes	nsubj
28	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 forgets	parataxis
29	for	for	ADP	_	30 Margaret	case
30	Margaret	Margaret	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 comes	obl
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 takes	cc
32	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 comes	conj
33	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 takes	obj
34	to	to	ADP	_	36 Neverland	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 Neverland	det
36	Neverland	Neverland	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 takes	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 tells	punct
38	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	40 tells	advmod
39	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 tells	nsubj
40	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 Neverland	acl:relcl
41	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 tells	iobj
42	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 tells	obj
43	about	about	ADP	_	44 himself	case
44	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	42 stories	nmod
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 listens	punct
46	to	to	ADP	_	47 which	case
47	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	49 listens	obl
48	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 listens	nsubj
49	listens	listen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	40 tells	conj
50	eagerly	eagerly	ADV	_	49 listens	advmod
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 daughter	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	grow up	participle						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	present	Jane			now	with a common grown daughter	tree rules
3	call	participle		a common grown daughter not said here				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	clean	gerund	every spring			time		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	forget	present	figure					tree rules
6	come	present	Peter				for Margaret	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	take	present	Peter not said here	Jane	the Neverland			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to neverland=Destination
8	tell speech: assert	present	Jane	stories	figure		about figure	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient story=Topic
9	listen	present	figure				eagerly property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to which=Theme

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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