Peter Pan, Chapter I. PETER BREAKS THROUGH, sentence 122

All were looking so safe and cosy that she smiled at her fears now and sat down tranquilly by the fire to sew.

Who acts: All, Mrs. · What happens: look, smile, sit down, sew, fear · To what, where: fears

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 (All, Mrs.), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 looking	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 looking	aux
3	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 safe	advmod
5	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 looking	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 cosy	cc
7	cosy	cosy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 safe	conj
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 smiled	mark
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 smiled	nsubj
10	smiled	smile	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 safe	advcl
11	at	at	ADP	_	13 fears	case
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 fears	nmod:poss
13	fears	fear	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 smiled	obl
14	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 smiled	advmod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 sat	cc
16	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 smiled	conj
17	down	down	ADP	_	16 sat	compound:prt
18	tranquilly	tranquilly	ADV	_	16 sat	advmod
19	by	by	ADP	_	21 fire	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 fire	det
21	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 sat	obl
22	to	to	PART	_	23 sew	mark
23	sew	sew	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 fire	acl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 looking	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	past · progressive	All			safe property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	smile	past	Mrs.	Mrs.'s fears	now		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	sit down	past	Mrs. not said here			by the fire; tranquilly property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by fire=Location
4	sew	to-infinitive	Mrs. not said here				vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
5	fear		Mrs.				nom fear «feeling 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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