Peter Pan, Chapter I. PETER BREAKS THROUGH, sentence 95

Some leaves of a tree had been found on the nursery floor, which certainly were not there when the children went to bed, and Mrs. Darling was puzzling over them when Wendy said with a tolerant smile:

Who acts: nursery floor, children, Mrs. Darling, Wendy · What happens: find, not be, go, puzzle, say · To what, where: leaves, nursery floor, bed · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (nursery floor, children, Mrs. Darling, Wendy), 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 leaves	det
2	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 found	nsubj:pass
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 tree	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 tree	det
5	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 leaves	nmod
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 found	aux
7	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 found	aux:pass
8	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	on	on	ADP	_	12 floor	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 floor	det
11	nursery	nursery	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 floor	compound
12	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 found	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 there	punct
14	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 there	nsubj
15	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	18 there	advmod
16	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 there	cop
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 there	advmod
18	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 floor	conj
19	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	22 went	advmod
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 children	det
21	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 went	nsubj
22	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 there	advcl
23	to	to	ADP	_	24 bed	case
24	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 went	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 puzzling	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 puzzling	cc
27	Mrs.	Mrs.	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 Darling	compound
28	Darling	Darling	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 puzzling	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 puzzling	aux
30	puzzling	puzzle	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 went	advcl
31	over	over	ADP	_	32 them	case
32	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 puzzling	obl
33	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	35 said	advmod
34	Wendy	Wendy	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 said	nsubj
35	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 puzzling	advcl
36	with	with	ADP	_	39 smile	case
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 smile	det
38	tolerant	tolerant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 smile	amod
39	smile	smile	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 said	obl
40	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	find	past · perfect · passive		some leaves of a tree	the nursery floor		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
2	not is	past	the nursery floor			certainly, there property	tree rules
3	go	past	the children		bed		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial_Location
4	puzzle	past · progressive	Mrs. Darling			over children = child	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
5	say speech: assert	past	Wendy			with a tolerant smile	vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent with smile=Manner

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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