Peter Pan, Chapter I. PETER BREAKS THROUGH, sentence 121

It happened to be Nana’s evening off, and Mrs. Darling had bathed them and sung to them till one by one they had let go her hand and slid away into the land of sleep.

Who acts: It, Mrs., one · What happens: happen off, be, bath, sing, let, go · To what, where: evening, children, one, hand, land

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 (It, Mrs., one), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 happened	nsubj
2	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	7 evening	mark
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 evening	cop
5	Nana	Nana	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 evening	nmod:poss
6	’s	's	PART	_	5 Nana	case
7	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 happened	advcl
8	off	off	ADP	_	2 happened	compound:prt
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 bathed	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 bathed	cc
11	Mrs.	Mrs.	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 bathed	nsubj
12	Darling	Darling	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Mrs.	flat
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 bathed	aux
14	bathed	bath	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 happened	parataxis
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 bathed	obj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 sung	cc
17	sung	sing	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 bathed	conj
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 them	case
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 sung	obl
20	till	till	SCONJ	_	26 let	mark
21	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 let	nsubj:pass
22	by	by	ADP	_	23 one	case
23	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 one	nmod
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 let	nsubj:pass
25	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 let	aux
26	let	let	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 sung	advcl
27	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 let	xcomp
28	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 hand	nmod:poss
29	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 go	obj
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 slid	cc
31	slid	slide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 bathed	conj
32	away	away	ADV	_	31 slid	advmod
33	into	into	ADP	_	35 land	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 land	det
35	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 slid	obl
36	of	of	ADP	_	37 sleep	case
37	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 land	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 happened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	happen off	past	It					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	to-infinitive		Nana's evening				tree rules
3	bath	past · perfect	Mrs.	children = child				tree rules
4	sing speech: express	participle	Mrs. not said here		children = child			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to they=Recipient
5	let	past · perfect · passive		one by one				tree rules
6	go	infinitive	one by one not said here	Mrs.'s hand				vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hand=Theme
7	slide away	past	Mrs. not said here			the land of sleep	away property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into land=Destination

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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