Peter Pan, Chapter II. THE SHADOW, sentence 32

It had begun so uneventfully, so precisely like a hundred other evenings, with Nana putting on the water for Michael’s bath and carrying him to it on her back.

Who acts: detail, Nana · What happens: begin, put, carry · To what, where: water, Michael, detail, back

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 (detail, Nana), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 begun	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 begun	aux
3	begun	begin	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 uneventfully	advmod
5	uneventfully	uneventfully	ADV	_	3 begun	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 evenings	punct
7	so	so	ADV	_	8 precisely	advmod
8	precisely	precisely	ADV	_	13 evenings	advmod
9	like	like	ADP	_	13 evenings	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 hundred	det
11	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 evenings	nummod
12	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 evenings	amod
13	evenings	evening	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 begun	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 putting	punct
15	with	with	SCONJ	_	17 putting	mark
16	Nana	Nana	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 putting	nsubj
17	putting	put	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 begun	advcl
18	on	on	ADP	_	20 water	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 water	det
20	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 putting	obl
21	for	for	ADP	_	24 bath	case
22	Michael	Michael	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 bath	nmod:poss
23	’s	's	PART	_	22 Michael	case
24	bath	bath	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 putting	obl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 carrying	cc
26	carrying	carry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 putting	conj
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 carrying	obj
28	to	to	ADP	_	29 it	case
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 carrying	obl
30	on	on	ADP	_	32 back	case
31	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 back	nmod:poss
32	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 carrying	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 begun	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past · perfect	detail				evening	uneventfully property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	put	gerund	Nana			the water		for Michael's bath	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on water=Destination
3	carry	gerund	Nana not said here	Michael	detail	Nana's back			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to it=Destination

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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