Peter Pan, Chapter I. PETER BREAKS THROUGH, sentence 19

She drew them when she should have been totting up.

Who acts: Mrs. · What happens: draw, tot up · To what, where: books

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 (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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 drew	nsubj
2	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 drew	obj
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 totting	advmod
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 totting	nsubj
6	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 totting	aux
7	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 totting	aux
8	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 totting	aux
9	totting	tot	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 drew	advcl
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 totting	compound:prt
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 drew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	draw	past	Mrs.	books = book					vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
2	tot up	should · perfect · progressive	Mrs.						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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