Peter Pan, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!, sentence 275

It looked delightfully easy, and they tried it first from the floor and then from the beds, but they always went down instead of up.

Who acts: conceit, manners · What happens: look, try, go down · To what, where: conceit, floor

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 (conceit, manners), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 looked	nsubj
2	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	delightfully	delightfully	ADV	_	4 easy	advmod
4	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 looked	xcomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 tried	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 tried	cc
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 tried	nsubj
8	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 looked	conj
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 tried	obj
10	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	8 tried	advmod
11	from	from	ADP	_	13 floor	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 floor	det
13	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tried	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 beds	cc
15	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 beds	advmod
16	from	from	ADP	_	18 beds	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 beds	det
18	beds	bed	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 floor	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 went	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 went	cc
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 went	nsubj
22	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	23 went	advmod
23	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 looked	conj
24	down	down	ADP	_	23 went	compound:prt
25	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	27 up	case
26	of	of	ADP	_	25 instead	fixed
27	up	up	ADV	_	23 went	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	look	past	conceit			easy property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	try	past	manners	conceit	the floor and the beds	first property	vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
3	go down	past	manners			always property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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