Peter Pan, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!, sentence 162

However, John continued to sleep so placidly on the floor that she allowed him to remain there.

Who acts: John, Wendy · What happens: continue, sleep, allow, remain · To what, where: floor, John

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 (John, 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	However	however	ADV	_	4 continued	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 However	punct
3	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 continued	nsubj
4	continued	continue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 sleep	mark
6	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 continued	xcomp
7	so	so	ADV	_	8 placidly	advmod
8	placidly	placidly	ADV	_	4 continued	advmod
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 floor	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 floor	det
11	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 continued	obl
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 allowed	mark
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 allowed	nsubj
14	allowed	allow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 continued	advcl
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 allowed	iobj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 remain	mark
17	remain	remain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 allowed	xcomp
18	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 remain	advmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 continued	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	continue	past	John		the floor	however, placidly property	vn continue-55.3 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	sleep	to-infinitive	John not said here				vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	allow	past	Wendy	John			vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer he=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
4	remain not said to happen	to-infinitive	Wendy not said here		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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