Peter Pan, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!, sentence 247

And thus when Liza entered, holding Nana, the nursery seemed quite its old self, very dark, and you would have sworn you heard its three wicked inmates breathing angelically as they slept.

Who acts: Liza, nursery, you, three wicked inmates, inmates · What happens: enter, hold, seem, swear, hear, breathe · To what, where: Nana, old self, three wicked inmates

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 (Liza, nursery, you, three wicked inmates), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 entered	cc
2	thus	thus	ADV	_	5 entered	advmod
3	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 entered	advmod
4	Liza	Liza	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 entered	nsubj
5	entered	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 holding	punct
7	holding	hold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 entered	advcl
8	Nana	Nana	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 holding	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 seemed	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 nursery	det
11	nursery	nursery	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 seemed	nsubj
12	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 Nana	acl:relcl
13	quite	quite	DET	PronType=Ind	16 self	det:predet
14	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 self	nmod:poss
15	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 self	amod
16	self	self	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 seemed	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 dark	punct
18	very	very	ADV	_	19 dark	advmod
19	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 seemed	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 sworn	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 sworn	cc
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 sworn	nsubj
23	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 sworn	aux
24	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 sworn	aux
25	sworn	swear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 entered	conj
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 heard	nsubj
27	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 sworn	ccomp
28	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 inmates	nmod:poss
29	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	31 inmates	nummod
30	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 inmates	amod
31	inmates	inmate	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 heard	obj
32	breathing	breathe	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	31 inmates	acl
33	angelically	angelically	ADV	_	32 breathing	advmod
34	as	as	SCONJ	_	36 slept	mark
35	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 slept	nsubj
36	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 breathing	advcl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 entered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	enter	past	Liza		thus property	vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	hold	gerund	Liza not said here	Nana		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nana=Theme
3	seem	past	the nursery	nursery's old self		vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme self=Attribute
4	swear	would · perfect	you			vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	hear	past	you	nursery's three wicked inmates		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer inmate=Stimulus
6	breathe	gerund	nursery's three wicked inmates not said here		angelically property	vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	sleep	past	inmates = inmate			vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=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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