Peter Pan, Chapter II. THE SHADOW, sentence 41

She had found her two older children playing at being herself and father on the occasion of Wendy’s birth, and John was saying:

Who acts: Wendy, two older children, John · What happens: find, play, be, say, occasion · To what, where: Mrs., occasion, birth · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Wendy, two older children, John), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 found	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 found	aux
3	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 found	obj
5	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 children	nummod
6	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 children	amod
7	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 found	obj
8	playing	play	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 children	acl
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 herself	case
10	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 herself	cop
11	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	8 playing	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 father	cc
13	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 children	conj
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 occasion	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 occasion	det
16	occasion	occasion	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 found	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	20 birth	case
18	Wendy	Wendy	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 birth	nmod:poss
19	’s	's	PART	_	18 Wendy	case
20	birth	birth	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 occasion	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 saying	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 saying	cc
23	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 saying	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 saying	aux
25	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 found	parataxis
26	:	:	PUNCT	_	3 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	find	past · perfect	Wendy	Mrs.	the occasion of Wendy's birth		vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent she=Theme child=Attribute
2	play	gerund	two older children and father not said here				vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	gerund				at Wendy	tree rules
4	say speech: assert	past · progressive	John				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	occasion			Wendy's birth			nom occasion «event 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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