Peter Pan, Chapter XVII. WHEN WENDY GREW UP, sentence 33

He did not exactly come to the window, but he brushed against it in passing so that she could open it if she liked and call to him.

Who acts: Peter, remark · What happens: not come, brush, pass, open, like, call · To what, where: window, Peter · 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 (Peter, remark), 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	5 come	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 come	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 come	advmod
4	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	5 come	advmod
5	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 window	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 window	det
8	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 come	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 brushed	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 brushed	cc
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 brushed	nsubj
12	brushed	brush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 come	conj
13	against	against	ADP	_	14 it	case
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 brushed	obl
15	in	in	SCONJ	_	16 passing	mark
16	passing	pass	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 brushed	advcl
17	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	21 open	mark
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 so	fixed
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 open	nsubj
20	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 open	aux
21	open	open	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 passing	advcl
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 open	obj
23	if	if	SCONJ	_	25 liked	mark
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 liked	nsubj
25	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 open	advcl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 call	cc
27	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 liked	xcomp
28	to	to	ADP	_	29 him	case
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 call	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	not come	past · do-support	Peter			the window	exactly property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to window=Initial_Location
2	brush	past	Peter			window		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent against it=Destination
3	pass	gerund	Peter not said here					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	open	could	remark	window				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme
5	like a condition, not said to happen	past	remark					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
6	call not said to happen	infinitive	remark not said here		Peter			vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient

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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