Peter Pan, Chapter I. PETER BREAKS THROUGH, sentence 51

Lovely dances followed, in which the only other servant, Liza, was sometimes allowed to join.

Who acts: Lovely dances, only other servant · What happens: follow, allow, join · To what, where: only other servant

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 (Lovely dances, only other servant), 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	Lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 dances	amod
2	dances	dance	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 followed	nsubj
3	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 allowed	punct
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 which	case
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 allowed	obl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 servant	det
8	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 servant	amod
9	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 servant	amod
10	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 allowed	nsubj:pass
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 Liza	punct
12	Liza	Liza	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 servant	appos
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 servant	punct
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 allowed	aux:pass
15	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	16 allowed	advmod
16	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 followed	parataxis
17	to	to	PART	_	18 join	mark
18	join	join	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 allowed	xcomp
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 followed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	follow	past	Lovely dances			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	allow	past · passive		the only other servant	sometimes property	vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
3	join not said to happen	to-infinitive	the only other servant not said here			vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

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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