Peter Pan, Chapter I. PETER BREAKS THROUGH, sentence 40

It was a lesson in propriety to see her escorting the children to school, walking sedately by their side when they were well behaved, and butting them back into line if they strayed.

Who acts: talk, Nana, children · What happens: be, see, escort, walk, behave, butt back · To what, where: lesson, propriety, Nana, children, school, line

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 (talk, Nana, children), 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	4 lesson	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lesson	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 lesson	det
4	lesson	lesson	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 propriety	case
6	propriety	propriety	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lesson	nmod
7	to	to	PART	_	8 see	mark
8	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 lesson	acl
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 see	obj
10	escorting	escort	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 see	xcomp
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 children	det
12	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 escorting	obj
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 school	case
14	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 escorting	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 walking	punct
16	walking	walk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 escorting	conj
17	sedately	sedately	ADV	_	16 walking	advmod
18	by	by	ADP	_	20 side	case
19	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 side	nmod:poss
20	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 walking	obl
21	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	25 behaved	advmod
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 behaved	nsubj:pass
23	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 behaved	aux:pass
24	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	25 behaved	advmod
25	behaved	behave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 walking	advcl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 butting	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 butting	cc
28	butting	butt	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 escorting	conj
29	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 butting	obj
30	back	back	ADV	_	28 butting	advmod
31	into	into	ADP	_	32 line	case
32	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 butting	obl
33	if	if	SCONJ	_	35 strayed	mark
34	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 strayed	nsubj
35	strayed	stray	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 butting	advcl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 lesson	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	talk	a lesson	propriety		tree rules
2	see	to-infinitive		Nana			tree rules
3	escort	gerund	Nana not said here	the children	school		vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent child=Theme to school=Destination
4	walk	gerund	Nana not said here			by children's side; sedately property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by side=Trajectory
5	behave	past · passive		children = child		well property	tree rules
6	butt back	gerund	Nana not said here	children = child		into line result	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent they=Patient into line=Result
7	stray a condition, not said to happen	past	children = child				vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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