Peter Pan, Chapter II. THE SHADOW, sentence 20

They sat thus night after night recalling that fatal Friday, till every detail of it was stamped on their brains and came through on the other side like the faces on a bad coinage.

Who acts: shame · What happens: sit, recall, stamp, come through, detail · To what, where: detail, brains, other side, education

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 (shame), 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	2 sat	nsubj
2	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	thus	thus	ADV	_	4 night	advmod
4	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sat	obl:unmarked
5	after	after	ADP	_	6 night	case
6	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sat	obl
7	recalling	recall	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 sat	advcl
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 Friday	mark
9	fatal	fatal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 Friday	amod
10	Friday	Friday	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 recalling	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 stamped	punct
12	till	till	SCONJ	_	18 stamped	mark
13	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	14 detail	det
14	detail	detail	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 stamped	nsubj:pass
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 it	case
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 detail	nmod
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 stamped	aux:pass
18	stamped	stamp	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 sat	conj
19	on	on	ADP	_	21 brains	case
20	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 brains	nmod:poss
21	brains	brain	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 stamped	obl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 came	cc
23	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sat	conj
24	through	through	ADV	_	23 came	advmod
25	on	on	ADP	_	28 side	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 side	det
27	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 side	amod
28	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 came	obl
29	like	like	ADP	_	31 faces	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 faces	det
31	faces	face	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 side	nmod
32	on	on	ADP	_	35 coinage	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 coinage	det
34	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 coinage	amod
35	coinage	coinage	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 faces	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	shame			night		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	recall	gerund	shame not said here			friday		vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	stamp	past · passive		every detail of education	shame's brains			vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: subject=Theme on brain=Destination
4	come through	past	shame not said here		the other side like the faces on a bad coinage		through property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on side=Location
5	detail			education				nom detail «cognition transitive»: of=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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