Peter Pan, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!, sentence 79

To induce her to look up he pretended to be going away, and when this failed he sat on the end of the bed and tapped her gently with his foot.

Who acts: this, Peter · What happens: induce, look up, pretend, go away, fail, sit · To what, where: Wendy, end

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 (this, Peter), 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	To	to	PART	_	2 induce	mark
2	induce	induce	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 failed	advcl
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 induce	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 look	mark
5	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 induce	xcomp
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 look	compound:prt
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 pretended	nsubj
8	pretended	pretend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 look	advcl
9	to	to	PART	_	11 going	mark
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 going	aux
11	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 pretended	advcl
12	away	away	ADV	_	11 going	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 failed	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 failed	cc
15	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	17 failed	advmod
16	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 failed	nsubj
17	failed	fail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 sat	nsubj
19	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 failed	ccomp
20	on	on	ADP	_	22 end	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 end	det
22	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 sat	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 bed	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 bed	det
25	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 end	nmod
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 tapped	cc
27	tapped	tap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 sat	conj
28	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 tapped	obj
29	gently	gently	ADV	_	27 tapped	advmod
30	with	with	ADP	_	32 foot	case
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 foot	nmod:poss
32	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 tapped	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 failed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	induce	to-infinitive	this not said here	Wendy			vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Patient clause=Result
2	look up	to-infinitive	this not said here				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	pretend	past	Peter				tree rules
4	go away	to-infinitive · progressive	Peter not said here			away property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	fail	past	this				vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	sit	past	Peter		on the end of the bed		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on end=Location
7	tap	past	Peter not said here	Wendy		with Peter's foot; gently property	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent she=Patient with foot=Instrument

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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