Peter Pan, Chapter XVII. WHEN WENDY GREW UP, sentence 87

Before they had attended school a week they saw what goats they had been not to remain on the island; but it was too late now, and soon they settled down to being as ordinary as you or me or Jenkins minor.

Who acts: boys, school · What happens: attend, see, have, not remain, be, settle down · To what, where: school, goats, island

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 (boys, school), 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	Before	before	SCONJ	_	4 attended	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 attended	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 attended	aux
4	attended	attend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 saw	advcl
5	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 attended	obj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 week	det
7	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 saw	obl:unmarked
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 saw	nsubj
9	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 saw	obj
11	goats	goat	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 what	nsubj
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 had	nsubj
13	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 goats	acl:relcl
14	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 had	aux
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 remain	advmod
16	to	to	PART	_	17 remain	mark
17	remain	remain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 been	ccomp
18	on	on	ADP	_	20 island	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 island	det
20	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 remain	obl
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 late	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 late	cc
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 late	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 late	cop
25	too	too	ADV	_	26 late	advmod
26	late	late	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 saw	advmod
27	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	26 late	advmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 settled	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 settled	cc
30	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	32 settled	advmod
31	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 settled	nsubj
32	settled	settle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 saw	conj
33	down	down	ADV	_	32 settled	advmod
34	to	to	ADP	_	37 ordinary	case
35	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	37 ordinary	cop
36	as	as	ADV	_	37 ordinary	advmod
37	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 settled	obl
38	as	as	ADP	_	39 you	case
39	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	37 ordinary	obl
40	or	or	CCONJ	_	41 me	cc
41	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	39 you	conj
42	or	or	CCONJ	_	44 minor	cc
43	Jenkins	Jenkins	PROPN	Number=Sing	44 minor	compound
44	minor	minor	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 you	conj
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	attend	past · perfect	boys = boy	school				vn attend-107.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme school=Goal
2	see	past	boys = boy			week		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus
3	have	participle	boys = boy	goats not said here				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goat=Patient
4	not remain	to-infinitive	boys = boy not said here		the island			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on island=Location
5	is	past	school			now	late property	tree rules
6	settle down	past	boys = boy				down, soon property	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient
7	is	gerund					as you; ordinary property	tree rules

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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