Peter Pan, Chapter II. THE SHADOW, sentence 176

In the meantime Mrs. Darling had put the children to bed in unwonted silence and lit their night-lights.

Who acts: children · What happens: put, light · To what, where: Mrs., meantime, night lights

This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter II. THE SHADOW. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	In	in	ADP	_	3 meantime	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 meantime	det
3	meantime	meantime	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 put	obl
4	Mrs.	Mrs.	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 put	nsubj:pass
5	Darling	Darling	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Mrs.	flat
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 put	aux
7	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 children	det
9	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 put	obj
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 bed	case
11	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 put	obl
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 silence	case
13	unwonted	unwonted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 silence	amod
14	silence	silence	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 put	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 lit	cc
16	lit	light	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 put	conj
17	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 lights	nmod:poss
18	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 lights	compound
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 night	punct
20	lights	light	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 lit	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	put	past · perfect · passive		Mrs.	the meantime	to bed; in unwonted silence	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: subject=Asset child=Goal
2	light	past		children's night lights			vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent light=Product
3	light		children = child				nom light «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent

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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