Peter Pan, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!, sentence 2

They were awfully nice little night-lights, and one cannot help wishing that they could have kept awake to see Peter; but Wendy’s light blinked and gave such a yawn that the other two yawned also, and before they could close their mouths all the three went out.

Who acts: lights, one, nice little night lights, light, three, Wendy · What happens: be, not help, wish, keep, see, blink · To what, where: nice little night lights, lights, Peter, yawn, mouths · 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 (lights, one, nice little night lights, light), 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	8 lights	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 lights	cop
3	awfully	awfully	ADV	_	8 lights	advmod
4	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 lights	amod
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 lights	amod
6	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lights	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 night	punct
8	lights	light	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 help	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 help	cc
11	one	one	PRON	Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 help	nsubj
12	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 help	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 help	advmod
14	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 lights	acl:relcl
15	wishing	wish	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 help	xcomp
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 kept	mark
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 kept	nsubj:pass
18	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 kept	aux
19	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 kept	aux
20	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 wishing	ccomp
21	awake	awake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 kept	xcomp
22	to	to	PART	_	23 see	mark
23	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 kept	advcl
24	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 see	obj
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 blinked	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 blinked	cc
27	Wendy	Wendy	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 light	nmod:poss
28	’s	's	PART	_	27 Wendy	case
29	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 blinked	nsubj
30	blinked	blink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 lights	parataxis
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 gave	cc
32	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 blinked	conj
33	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	35 yawn	det:predet
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 yawn	det
35	yawn	yawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 gave	obj
36	that	that	SCONJ	_	39 two	mark
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 two	det
38	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 two	amod
39	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	32 gave	obl
40	yawned	yawn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	39 two	acl
41	also	also	ADV	_	40 yawned	advmod
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 close	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 close	cc
44	before	before	SCONJ	_	47 close	mark
45	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 close	nsubj
46	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	47 close	aux
47	close	close	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 yawned	advcl
48	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	49 mouths	nmod:poss
49	mouths	mouth	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 close	obj
50	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	53 went	det:predet
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 three	det
52	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	53 went	nsubj
53	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 close	conj
54	out	out	ADP	_	53 went	compound:prt
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 lights	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	lights = light	nice little night lights	awfully property	tree rules
2	not help	can	one	nice little night lights not said here		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent light=Beneficiary clause=Theme
3	wish not said to happen	gerund	nice little night lights not said here			vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	keep	could · perfect · passive		lights = light	awake property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
5	see	to-infinitive		Peter		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer peter=Stimulus
6	blink	past	Wendy's light			vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	give	past	Wendy's light not said here	such yawn	the other two obl	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yawn=Theme
8	yawn	participle				vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	close	could	lights = light	lights's mouths		vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouth=Patient
10	go out	past	the three			vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
11	light		Wendy			nom light «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent

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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