Peter Pan, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!, sentence 132

“They hardly ever stand still,” he said, but for one moment Wendy saw the romantic figure come to rest on the cuckoo clock.

Who acts: drawers, Peter, Wendy · What happens: stand, say, see, come, rest · To what, where: romantic figure, cuckoo clock · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (drawers, Peter, Wendy), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	5 stand	punct
2	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 stand	nsubj
3	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	5 stand	advmod
4	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	5 stand	advmod
5	stand	stand	VERB	Mood=Sub Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 said	ccomp
6	still	still	ADV	_	5 stand	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 stand	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 stand	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 said	nsubj
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 saw	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 saw	cc
13	for	for	ADP	_	15 moment	case
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 moment	nummod
15	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 saw	obl
16	Wendy	Wendy	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 saw	nsubj
17	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 said	ccomp
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 figure	det
19	romantic	romantic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 figure	amod
20	figure	figure	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 saw	obj
21	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 saw	ccomp
22	to	to	PART	_	23 rest	mark
23	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 come	xcomp
24	on	on	ADP	_	27 clock	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 clock	det
26	cuckoo	cuckoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 clock	compound
27	clock	clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 rest	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand in a quote	infinitive	drawers = drawer			ever; still	hardly property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	Peter					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	see	past	Wendy	the romantic figure		moment		tree rules
4	come	infinitive						tree rules
5	rest	to-infinitive			the cuckoo clock			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on clock=Location

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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