Peter Pan, Chapter II. THE SHADOW, sentence 177

They could hear Nana barking, and John whimpered, “It is because he is chaining her up in the yard,” but Wendy was wiser.

Who acts: lights, Nana, John, silence, Wendy · What happens: hear, bark, whimper, be

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 (lights, Nana, John, silence), 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	3 hear	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 hear	aux
3	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	Nana	Nana	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 barking	nsubj
5	barking	bark	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 hear	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 whimpered	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 whimpered	cc
8	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 whimpered	nsubj
9	whimpered	whimper	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 barking	parataxis
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 chaining	punct
11	“	"	PUNCT	_	17 chaining	punct
12	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 chaining	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 chaining	cop
14	because	because	SCONJ	_	17 chaining	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 chaining	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 chaining	aux
17	chaining	chain	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 whimpered	ccomp
18	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 chaining	obj
19	up	up	ADP	_	17 chaining	compound:prt
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 yard	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 yard	det
22	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 chaining	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 chaining	punct
24	”	"	PUNCT	_	9 whimpered	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 wiser	cc
26	Wendy	Wendy	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 wiser	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 wiser	cop
28	wiser	wise	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 barking	conj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 hear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	hear	could	lights = light		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	bark	gerund	Nana		vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	whimper	past	John		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	is in a quote	present · progressive	silence	in the yard; chain property	tree rules
5	is	past	Wendy	wise property	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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