Peter Pan, Chapter XVII. WHEN WENDY GREW UP, sentence 89

At first Nana tied their feet to the bed-posts so that they should not fly away in the night; and one of their diversions by day was to pretend to fall off buses; but by and by they ceased to tug at their bonds in bed, and found that they hurt themselves when they let go of the bus.

Who acts: boys, one, day · What happens: tie, not fly away, be, fall off, cease, tug · To what, where: feet, first Nana, buses, boys · 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 (boys, one, day), 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	At	at	ADP	_	3 Nana	case
2	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 Nana	amod
3	Nana	Nana	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 tied	obl
4	tied	tie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 feet	nmod:poss
6	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 tied	obj
7	to	to	ADP	_	11 posts	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 posts	det
9	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 posts	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 bed	punct
11	posts	post	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 tied	obl
12	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	17 fly	mark
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 so	fixed
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 fly	nsubj
15	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 fly	aux
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 fly	advmod
17	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 tied	advcl
18	away	away	ADV	_	17 fly	advmod
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 night	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 night	det
21	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 fly	obl
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 pretend	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 pretend	cc
24	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	32 pretend	nsubj
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 diversions	case
26	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 diversions	nmod:poss
27	diversions	diversion	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 one	nmod
28	by	by	ADP	_	29 day	case
29	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 diversions	nmod
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 pretend	cop
31	to	to	PART	_	32 pretend	mark
32	pretend	pretend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 tied	advcl
33	to	to	PART	_	34 fall	mark
34	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 pretend	xcomp
35	off	off	ADP	_	34 fall	compound:prt
36	buses	bus	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 fall	obj
37	;	;	PUNCT	_	43 ceased	punct
38	but	but	CCONJ	_	43 ceased	cc
39	by	by	SCONJ	_	43 ceased	mark
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 by	cc
41	by	by	ADP	_	39 by	conj
42	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 ceased	nsubj
43	ceased	cease	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 tied	conj
44	to	to	PART	_	45 tug	mark
45	tug	tug	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 ceased	xcomp
46	at	at	ADP	_	48 bonds	case
47	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	48 bonds	nmod:poss
48	bonds	bond	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 tug	obl
49	in	in	ADP	_	50 bed	case
50	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 tug	obl
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 found	punct
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 found	cc
53	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 ceased	conj
54	that	that	SCONJ	_	56 hurt	mark
55	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	56 hurt	nsubj
56	hurt	hurt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	53 found	ccomp
57	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	56 hurt	obj
58	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	60 let	advmod
59	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	60 let	nsubj
60	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	56 hurt	advcl
61	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	60 let	xcomp
62	of	of	ADP	_	64 bus	case
63	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	64 bus	det
64	bus	bus	NOUN	Number=Sing	61 go	obl
65	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 tied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tie	past		boys's feet	first Nana		to the bed posts	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent foot=Patient to post=Co-Patient
2	not fly away	should	boys = boy			night	away property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	past	one of boys's diversions by day				pretend property	tree rules
4	fall off	to-infinitive	one of boys's diversions by day not said here	buses				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient bus=Extent
5	cease	past	boys = boy					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
6	tug	to-infinitive	boys = boy not said here				in bed; at boys's bonds	vn push-12-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent at bond=Theme
7	find	past	boys = boy not said here					vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
8	hurt	past	boys = boy	boys = boy				vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer themselves=Patient
9	let	past	boys = boy					tree rules
10	go	infinitive	boys = boy not said here				of the bus	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme of bus=Initial_Location
11	divert		day	boys = boy				nom diversion «act transitive»: poss=patient by=agent
12	bond		boys = boy					nom bond «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent

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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