Peter Pan, Chapter I. PETER BREAKS THROUGH, sentence 100

She explained in quite a matter-of-fact way that she thought Peter sometimes came to the nursery in the night and sat on the foot of her bed and played on his pipes to her.

Who acts: Wendy, Peter · What happens: explain, think, come, sit, play · To what, where: matter fact way, nursery, foot, Wendy, pipes · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter I. PETER BREAKS THROUGH. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wendy, 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 explained	nsubj
2	explained	explain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	11 way	case
4	quite	quite	DET	PronType=Ind	11 way	det:predet
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 way	det
6	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 way	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 fact	punct
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 fact	case
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 of	punct
10	fact	fact	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 way	compound
11	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 explained	obl
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 thought	mark
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 thought	nsubj
14	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 explained	advcl
15	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 came	nsubj
16	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	17 came	advmod
17	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 thought	ccomp
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 nursery	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 nursery	det
20	nursery	nursery	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 came	obl
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 night	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 night	det
23	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 came	obl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 sat	cc
25	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 thought	conj
26	on	on	ADP	_	28 foot	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 foot	det
28	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 sat	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 bed	case
30	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 bed	nmod:poss
31	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 foot	nmod
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 played	cc
33	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 sat	conj
34	on	on	ADP	_	36 pipes	case
35	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 pipes	nmod:poss
36	pipes	pipe	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 played	obl
37	to	to	ADP	_	38 her	case
38	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 played	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 explained	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	explain speech: assert	past	Wendy		quite matter fact way			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	think speech: other	past	Wendy					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	come	past	Peter		the nursery	night	sometimes property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to nursery=Initial_Location
4	sit	past	Wendy not said here		the foot of Wendy's bed			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on foot=Location
5	play	past	Wendy not said here	Wendy	Peter's pipes			vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=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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