Peter Pan, Chapter VII. THE HOME UNDER THE GROUND, sentence 15

The bed was tilted against the wall by day, and let down at 6:30, when it filled nearly half the room; and all the boys slept in it, except Michael, lying like sardines in a tin.

Who acts: bed, boys · What happens: tilt, let down, fill, sleep, lie · To what, where: bed, wall, 6:30, room, tin

This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter VII. THE HOME UNDER THE GROUND. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bed, boys), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bed	det
2	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tilted	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 tilted	aux:pass
4	tilted	tilt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	against	against	ADP	_	7 wall	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 wall	det
7	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tilted	obl
8	by	by	ADP	_	9 day	case
9	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tilted	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 let	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 let	cc
12	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 tilted	parataxis
13	down	down	ADP	_	12 let	compound:prt
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 6:30	case
15	6:30	6:30	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	12 let	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 filled	punct
17	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	19 filled	advmod
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 filled	nsubj
19	filled	fill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 let	conj
20	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	21 half	advmod
21	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	23 room	det:predet
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 room	det
23	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 filled	obj
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 slept	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 all	cc
26	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	28 boys	det:predet
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 boys	det
28	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 slept	nsubj
29	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 tilted	conj
30	in	in	ADP	_	31 it	case
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 slept	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 Michael	punct
33	except	except	ADP	_	34 Michael	case
34	Michael	Michael	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 slept	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 lying	punct
36	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 slept	advcl
37	like	like	ADP	_	38 sardines	case
38	sardines	sardine	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 lying	obl
39	in	in	ADP	_	41 tin	case
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 tin	det
41	tin	tin	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 lying	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 tilted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tilt	past · passive		the bed	the wall	day		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: subject=Theme against wall=Location
2	let down	infinitive			6:30			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent at 6:30=Asset
3	fill	past	bed	half room				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent room=Patient
4	sleep	past	all boys		room		except Michael	vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in it=Location
5	lie	gerund	all boys not said here		a tin		like sardines	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in tin=Location

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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