Peter Pan, Chapter I. PETER BREAKS THROUGH, sentence 43

They sat on forms, while Nana lay on the floor, but that was the only difference.

Who acts: kinds, Nana, that · What happens: sit, lie, be · To what, where: forms, floor, only difference

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 (kinds, Nana, that), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sat	nsubj
2	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	4 forms	case
4	forms	form	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 sat	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 lay	punct
6	while	while	SCONJ	_	8 lay	mark
7	Nana	Nana	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 lay	nsubj
8	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sat	conj
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 floor	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 floor	det
11	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lay	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 difference	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 difference	cc
14	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 difference	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 difference	cop
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 difference	det
17	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 difference	amod
18	difference	difference	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lay	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	sit	past	kinds = kind		forms	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on form=Location
2	lie	past	Nana		the floor	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on floor=Location
3	is a	past	that	the only difference		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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