Peter Pan, Chapter I. PETER BREAKS THROUGH, sentence 31

There was the same excitement over John, and Michael had even a narrower squeak; but both were kept, and soon, you might have seen the three of them going in a row to Miss Fulsom’s Kindergarten school, accompanied by their nurse.

Who acts: same excitement, Michael, you, three · What happens: be, have, keep, see, go, accompany · To what, where: narrower squeak, both, three, row

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 (same excitement, Michael, you, three), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 excitement	det
4	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 excitement	amod
5	excitement	excitement	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
6	over	over	ADP	_	7 John	case
7	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 excitement	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 had	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 had	cc
10	Michael	Michael	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 had	nsubj
11	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 was	parataxis
12	even	even	ADV	_	15 squeak	advmod
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 squeak	det
14	narrower	narrow	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	15 squeak	amod
15	squeak	squeak	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 had	obj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 kept	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 kept	cc
18	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	20 kept	nsubj:pass
19	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 kept	aux:pass
20	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 was	parataxis
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 seen	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 seen	cc
23	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	28 seen	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 soon	punct
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	28 seen	nsubj
26	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 seen	aux
27	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	28 seen	aux
28	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 kept	conj
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 three	det
30	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 seen	obj
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 them	case
32	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 three	nmod
33	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	28 seen	xcomp
34	in	in	ADP	_	36 row	case
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 row	det
36	row	row	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 going	obl
37	to	to	ADP	_	42 school	case
38	Miss	Miss	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 Fulsom	compound
39	Fulsom	Fulsom	PROPN	Number=Sing	42 school	nmod:poss
40	’s	's	PART	_	39 Fulsom	case
41	Kindergarten	Kindergarten	PROPN	Number=Sing	42 school	compound
42	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 going	obl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 accompanied	punct
44	accompanied	accompany	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 seen	conj
45	by	by	ADP	_	47 nurse	case
46	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	47 nurse	nmod:poss
47	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 accompanied	obl
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	the same excitement over John		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have	past	Michael	a narrower squeak			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent squeak=Patient
3	keep	past · passive		both			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
4	see	might · perfect	you	the three of John		soon property	tree rules
5	go	gerund	the three of John not said here		a row	to Miss Fulsom's Kindergarten school	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to school=Initial_Location
6	accompany	participle	you not said here			by John's nurse	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by nurse=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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