Peter Pan, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!, sentence 290

John let go and met Wendy near the bathroom.

Who acts: John · What happens: let, go, meet · To what, where: Wendy, bathroom

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), 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	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 let	nsubj
2	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 let	xcomp
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 met	cc
5	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 let	conj
6	Wendy	Wendy	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 met	obj
7	near	near	ADP	_	9 bathroom	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 bathroom	det
9	bathroom	bathroom	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 met	obl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	let	past	John			tree rules
2	go	infinitive	John not said here			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	meet	past	John not said here	Wendy	the bathroom	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wendy=Co-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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