Peter Pan, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!, sentence 264

Unfortunately Liza returned to her puddings, and Nana, seeing that no help would come from her, strained and strained at the chain until at last she broke it.

Who acts: Liza, Nana, help · What happens: return, see, come, strain, break · To what, where: chain, help

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, Nana, help), 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	Unfortunately	unfortunately	ADV	_	3 returned	advmod
2	Liza	Liza	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 returned	nsubj
3	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 puddings	case
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 puddings	nmod:poss
6	puddings	pudding	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 returned	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 seeing	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 seeing	cc
9	Nana	Nana	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 seeing	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 seeing	punct
11	seeing	see	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 returned	advcl
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 come	mark
13	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	14 help	det
14	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 come	nsubj
15	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 come	aux
16	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 seeing	advcl
17	from	from	ADP	_	18 her	case
18	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 come	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 strained	punct
20	strained	strain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 seeing	parataxis
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 strained	cc
22	strained	strain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 strained	conj
23	at	at	ADP	_	25 chain	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 chain	det
25	chain	chain	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 strained	obl
26	until	until	ADP	_	28 last	case
27	at	at	ADP	_	28 last	case
28	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 strained	conj
29	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 broke	nsubj
30	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 last	ccomp
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 broke	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 returned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	return	past	Liza			to Liza's puddings result; unfortunately property	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to pudding=Result
2	see	gerund	Nana				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	come	would	no help			from Nana	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from she=Initial_Location
4	strain	participle					vn wipe_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent
5	strain	participle			the chain		vn wipe_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent
6	break	past	Nana	help			vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Patient

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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