Peter Pan, Chapter VI. THE LITTLE HOUSE, sentence 159

They gurgled with joy at this, for by the greatest good luck the branches they had brought were sticky with red sap, and all the ground was carpeted with moss.

Who acts: walls, branches · What happens: gurgle, bring, be, carpet · To what, where: this, walls, greatest good luck, ground

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 (walls, branches), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gurgled	nsubj
2	gurgled	gurgle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	4 joy	case
4	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gurgled	obl
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 this	case
6	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 gurgled	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 luck	punct
8	for	for	ADP	_	13 luck	case
9	by	by	ADP	_	13 luck	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 luck	det
11	greatest	great	ADJ	Degree=Sup	13 luck	amod
12	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 luck	amod
13	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gurgled	obl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 branches	det
15	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 sticky	nsubj
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 brought	nsubj:pass
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 brought	aux
18	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 branches	acl:relcl
19	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 sticky	cop
20	sticky	sticky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 luck	acl:relcl
21	with	with	ADP	_	23 sap	case
22	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 sap	amod
23	sap	SAP	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 sticky	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 carpeted	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 carpeted	cc
26	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	28 ground	det:predet
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 ground	det
28	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 carpeted	nsubj:pass
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 carpeted	aux:pass
30	carpeted	carpet	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 gurgled	conj
31	with	with	ADP	_	32 moss	case
32	moss	moss	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 carpeted	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 gurgled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	gurgle	past	walls = wall		this	with joy; for the greatest good luck	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at this=Location
2	bring	past · perfect · passive	the branches not said here	walls = wall			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: subject=Theme
3	is	past	the branches	the greatest good luck not said here		with red sap; sticky property	tree rules
4	carpet	past · passive		all ground		with moss	vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with moss=Theme

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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