Peter Pan, Chapter IV. THE FLIGHT, sentence 97

Tinker Bell had been asleep on his shoulder, but now he wakened her and sent her on in front.

Who acts: Bell · What happens: be, waken, send on · To what, where: shoulder, Tinker, front

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 (Bell), 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	Tinker	tinker	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Bell	nmod:desc
2	Bell	Bell	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 asleep	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 asleep	aux
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 asleep	cop
5	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 shoulder	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 shoulder	nmod:poss
8	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 asleep	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 wakened	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 wakened	cc
11	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 wakened	advmod
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 wakened	nsubj
13	wakened	waken	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 asleep	parataxis
14	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 wakened	obj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 sent	cc
16	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 wakened	conj
17	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 sent	obj
18	on	on	ADP	_	16 sent	compound:prt
19	in	in	ADP	_	20 front	case
20	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 sent	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 asleep	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past · perfect	Bell Tinker		Bell's shoulder		asleep property	tree rules
2	waken	past	Bell	Tinker		now		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent she=Patient
3	send on	past	Bell not said here	Tinker	front			vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme in front=Destination

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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