Peter Pan, Chapter II. THE SHADOW, sentence 31

They would sit there in the empty nursery, recalling fondly every smallest detail of that dreadful evening.

Who acts: names · What happens: sit, recall, detail · To what, where: empty nursery, smallest detail, dreadful evening

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 (names), 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 sit	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 sit	aux
3	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 sit	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 nursery	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 nursery	det
7	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 nursery	amod
8	nursery	nursery	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sit	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 recalling	punct
10	recalling	recall	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 sit	advcl
11	fondly	fondly	ADV	_	10 recalling	advmod
12	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	14 detail	det
13	smallest	small	ADJ	Degree=Sup	14 detail	amod
14	detail	detail	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 recalling	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	18 evening	case
16	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 evening	det
17	dreadful	dreadful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 evening	amod
18	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 detail	nmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sit	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sit	would	names = name		the empty nursery; there		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in nursery=Location
2	recall	gerund	names = name not said here	every smallest detail of that dreadful evening		fondly property	vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent detail=Theme
3	detail			that dreadful evening			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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