Peter Pan, Chapter IV. THE FLIGHT, sentence 54

However, to make amends he showed them how to lie out flat on a strong wind that was going their way, and this was such a pleasant change that they tried it several times and found that they could sleep thus with security.

Who acts: recognition, strong wind, this, amends · What happens: make, show, lie out, go, be, try · To what, where: amends, strong wind, way, pleasant change · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter IV. THE FLIGHT. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (recognition, strong wind, this, amends), 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	However	however	ADV	_	4 make	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 However	punct
3	to	to	PART	_	4 make	mark
4	make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	amends	amend	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 make	obj
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 showed	nsubj
7	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 make	ccomp
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 showed	obj
9	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	11 lie	advmod
10	to	to	PART	_	11 lie	mark
11	lie	lie	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 make	parataxis
12	out	out	ADP	_	11 lie	compound:prt
13	flat	flat	ADV	_	11 lie	advmod
14	on	on	ADP	_	17 wind	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 wind	det
16	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 wind	amod
17	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lie	obl
18	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 going	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 going	aux
20	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 wind	acl:relcl
21	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 way	nmod:poss
22	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 going	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 change	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 change	cc
25	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	30 change	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 change	cop
27	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	30 change	det:predet
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 change	det
29	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 change	amod
30	change	change	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 make	parataxis
31	that	that	SCONJ	_	33 tried	mark
32	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 tried	nsubj
33	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 change	acl
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 tried	obj
35	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 times	amod
36	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 tried	obl:unmarked
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 found	cc
38	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 tried	conj
39	that	that	SCONJ	_	42 sleep	mark
40	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 sleep	nsubj
41	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	42 sleep	aux
42	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 found	ccomp
43	thus	thus	ADV	_	42 sleep	advmod
44	with	with	ADP	_	45 security	case
45	security	security	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 sleep	obl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 make	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	to-infinitive		amends			however property	tree rules
2	show	past	recognition	amends = amend				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
3	lie out	to-infinitive			a strong wind		flat property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on wind=Location
4	go	past · progressive	a strong wind	amends's way				vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme
5	is a	past	this	such pleasant change				tree rules
6	try	past	amends = amend	way		time		vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
7	find	past	amends = amend not said here					vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
8	sleep	could	amends = amend				with security; thus property	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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