Peter Pan, Chapter II. THE SHADOW, sentence 8

She hung it out at the window, meaning “He is sure to come back for it; let us put it where he can get it easily without disturbing the children.”

Who acts: Nana, slam, us · What happens: hang out, mean, be, come back, let, put · To what, where: shadow, window, us, children · 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 (Nana, slam, us), 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	2 hung	nsubj
2	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 hung	obj
4	out	out	ADP	_	2 hung	compound:prt
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 window	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 window	det
7	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hung	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 meaning	punct
9	meaning	mean	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 hung	advcl
10	“	"	PUNCT	_	13 sure	punct
11	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 sure	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 sure	cop
13	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 meaning	ccomp
14	to	to	PART	_	15 come	mark
15	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 sure	xcomp
16	back	back	ADV	_	15 come	advmod
17	for	for	ADP	_	18 it	case
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 come	obl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 let	punct
20	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 hung	ccomp
21	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 let	obj
22	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 let	xcomp
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 put	obj
24	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	27 get	advmod
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 get	nsubj
26	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 get	aux
27	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 put	parataxis
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 get	obj
29	easily	easily	ADV	_	27 get	advmod
30	without	without	SCONJ	_	31 disturbing	mark
31	disturbing	disturb	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	27 get	advcl
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 children	det
33	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 disturbing	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 let	punct
35	”	"	PUNCT	_	20 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hang out	past	Nana	shadow	the window		tree rules
2	mean	gerund	Nana not said here				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
3	is in a quote	present	slam			sure property	tree rules
4	come back in a quote	to-infinitive	slam not said here			for shadow	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	let in a quote	infinitive	Nana not said here	us			tree rules
6	put in a quote	infinitive	us not said here	shadow			vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal
7	get in a quote	can	slam	shadow		easily property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
8	disturb in a quote	gerund	slam not said here	the children			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus child=Experiencer

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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