Peter Pan, Chapter VI. THE LITTLE HOUSE, sentence 140

She was lying at their feet, but Slightly had the sense not to see her.

Who acts: lady, sense · What happens: lie, have, not see · To what, where: feet, sense, lady

This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter VI. THE LITTLE HOUSE. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lady, sense), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 lying	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lying	aux
3	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 feet	case
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 feet	nmod:poss
6	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 lying	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 had	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 had	cc
9	Slightly	slightly	ADV	_	10 had	advmod
10	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lying	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 sense	det
12	sense	sense	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 had	obj
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 see	advmod
14	to	to	PART	_	15 see	mark
15	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 had	xcomp
16	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 see	obj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 lying	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lie	past · progressive	lady		boys's feet		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at foot=Location
2	have	past	lady not said here	the sense		slightly property	tree rules
3	not see	to-infinitive	the sense not said here	lady			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus

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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