Peter Pan, Chapter II. THE SHADOW, sentence 192

No. 27 was only a few yards distant, but there had been a slight fall of snow, and Father and Mother Darling picked their way over it deftly not to soil their shoes.

Who acts: No., slight fall · What happens: be, pick · To what, where: slight fall, way

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 (No., slight fall), 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	No.	no.	NOUN	Abbr=Yes Number=Sing	8 distant	nsubj
2	27	27	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	1 No.	flat
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 distant	cop
4	only	only	ADV	_	8 distant	advmod
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 yards	det
6	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 yards	amod
7	yards	yard	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 distant	nsubj
8	distant	distant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 fall	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 fall	cc
11	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	13 been	expl
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 been	aux
13	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 fall	cop
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 fall	det
15	slight	slight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 fall	amod
16	fall	fall	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 picked	nsubj
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 snow	case
18	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 fall	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 Father	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 Father	cc
21	Father	Father	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 fall	appos
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 Mother	cc
23	Mother	Mother	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 Father	conj
24	Darling	Darling	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 Mother	flat
25	picked	pick	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 distant	parataxis
26	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 way	nmod:poss
27	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 picked	obj
28	over	over	ADP	_	29 it	case
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 picked	obl
30	deftly	deftly	ADV	_	25 picked	advmod
31	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	33 soil	advmod
32	to	to	ADP	_	33 soil	case
33	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 picked	obl
34	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 shoes	nmod:poss
35	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 soil	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 distant	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	No.		distant property	tree rules
2	is a	participle		a slight fall	of snow	tree rules
3	pick	past	a slight fall	lights's way	over yard; to soil; deftly property	vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=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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