Peter Pan, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!, sentence 144

They were together in the armchair by this time, and Wendy plied him with more questions.

Who acts: pots, Wendy · What happens: be, ply · To what, where: armchair, Peter

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 (pots, 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 armchair	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 armchair	cop
3	together	together	ADV	_	6 armchair	advmod
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 armchair	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 armchair	det
6	armchair	armchair	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	by	by	ADP	_	9 time	case
8	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 time	det
9	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 armchair	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 plied	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 plied	cc
12	Wendy	Wendy	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 plied	nsubj
13	plied	ply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 armchair	conj
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 plied	obj
15	with	with	ADP	_	17 questions	case
16	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	17 questions	amod
17	questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 plied	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 armchair	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	pots = pot			the armchair	time	together property	tree rules
2	ply	past	Wendy		Peter			with more questions	vn equip-13.4.2 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient with question=Theme

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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