Peter Pan, Chapter XVII. WHEN WENDY GREW UP, sentence 31

He went off dancing through the house, and they all cried “Hoop la!” and danced after him, searching for the drawing-room; and I forget whether they found it, but at any rate they found corners, and they all fitted in.

Who acts: Rather, Tootles, I · What happens: go off, dance, cry, hoop, search, forget · To what, where: house, la, corners, rate, Tootles · 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 (Rather, Tootles, I), 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 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	off	off	ADP	_	2 went	compound:prt
4	dancing	dance	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 went	xcomp
5	through	through	ADP	_	7 house	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 house	det
7	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dancing	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 cried	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 cried	cc
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 cried	nsubj
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 cried	advmod
12	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	parataxis
13	“	"	PUNCT	_	14 Hoop	punct
14	Hoop	hoop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 cried	xcomp
15	la	la	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 Hoop	obj
16	!	!	PUNCT	_	14 Hoop	punct
17	”	"	PUNCT	_	14 Hoop	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 danced	cc
19	danced	dance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 cried	conj
20	after	after	ADP	_	21 him	case
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 danced	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 searching	punct
23	searching	search	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 danced	advcl
24	for	for	ADP	_	28 room	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 room	det
26	drawing	drawing	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 room	compound
27	-	-	PUNCT	_	26 drawing	punct
28	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 searching	obl
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 forget	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 forget	cc
31	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 forget	nsubj
32	forget	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 cried	conj
33	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	35 found	mark
34	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 found	nsubj
35	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 forget	ccomp
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 found	obj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 found	punct
38	but	but	CCONJ	_	43 found	cc
39	at	at	ADP	_	41 rate	case
40	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	41 rate	det
41	rate	rate	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 found	obl
42	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 found	nsubj
43	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 found	conj
44	corners	corner	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 found	obj
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 fitted	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 fitted	cc
47	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 fitted	nsubj
48	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	49 fitted	nsubj:pass
49	fitted	fit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 went	parataxis
50	in	in	ADP	_	49 fitted	compound:prt
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go off	past	Rather					tree rules
2	dance	gerund	Rather not said here		the house			vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through house=Location
3	cry speech: express	past	Tootles = tootle					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	hoop in a quote	infinitive	Tootles = tootle not said here	la				tree rules
5	dance	past	Tootles = tootle not said here			after Rather		vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	search	gerund	Tootles = tootle not said here				for the drawing room	vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for room=Theme
7	forget	present	I					tree rules
8	find	past	Tootles = tootle	la				vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
9	find	past	Tootles = tootle	corners	any rate			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent corner=Theme at rate=Asset
10	fit in	participle · passive		Tootles = tootle				vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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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