Peter Pan, Chapter VI. THE LITTLE HOUSE, sentence 99

They skurried this way and that, down for bedding, up for firewood, and while they were at it, who should appear but John and Michael.

Who acts: news, it · What happens: skurry, be, appear · To what, where: way, it, John

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 (news, it), 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 skurried	nsubj
2	skurried	skurry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 way	det
4	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 skurried	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 that	cc
6	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 way	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 down	punct
8	down	down	ADV	_	2 skurried	advmod
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 bedding	case
10	bedding	bedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 skurried	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 firewood	punct
12	up	up	ADV	_	14 firewood	advmod
13	for	for	ADP	_	14 firewood	case
14	firewood	firewood	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bedding	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 appear	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 appear	cc
17	while	while	SCONJ	_	21 it	mark
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 it	nsubj
19	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 it	cop
20	at	at	ADP	_	21 it	case
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 appear	nsubj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 appear	punct
23	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 appear	nsubj
24	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 appear	aux
25	appear	appear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 skurried	parataxis
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 John	cc
27	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 appear	obl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 Michael	cc
29	Michael	Michael	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 John	conj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 skurried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	skurry	past	news	this way		for bedding and firewood; down property	tree rules
2	is	past	news		it		tree rules
3	appear	should	it	John and Michael			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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