Peter Pan, Chapter VII. THE HOME UNDER THE GROUND, sentence 28

The cooking, I can tell you, kept her nose to the pot, and even if there was nothing in it, even if there was no pot, she had to keep watching that it came aboil just the same.

Who acts: cooking, pot · What happens: tell, keep, be, have, watch, come · To what, where: you, nose, nothing, pot · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (cooking, pot), 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 cooking	det
2	cooking	cooking	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tell	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 cooking	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 tell	nsubj
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 tell	aux
6	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 tell	iobj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 kept	punct
9	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 tell	ccomp
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 nose	nmod:poss
11	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 kept	obj
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 pot	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 pot	det
14	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 kept	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 nothing	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 nothing	cc
17	even	even	ADV	_	20 was	advmod
18	if	if	SCONJ	_	20 was	mark
19	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	20 was	expl
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 nothing	cop
21	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 tell	obl
22	in	in	ADP	_	23 it	case
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 nothing	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 was	punct
25	even	even	ADV	_	28 was	advmod
26	if	if	SCONJ	_	28 was	mark
27	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	28 was	expl
28	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 tell	ccomp
29	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	30 pot	det
30	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 was	nsubj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 had	punct
32	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 had	nsubj
33	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 tell	ccomp
34	to	to	PART	_	35 keep	mark
35	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 had	xcomp
36	watching	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	35 keep	xcomp
37	that	that	SCONJ	_	39 came	mark
38	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 came	nsubj
39	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 watching	advcl
40	aboil	aboil	ADV	_	39 came	advmod
41	just	just	ADV	_	43 same	advmod
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 same	det
43	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 came	xcomp
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	can	the cooking		you			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
2	keep	past		cooking's nose			to the pot	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nose=Theme
3	is a	past		nothing		pot		tree rules
4	be a condition, not said to happen	past	no pot			there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	have	past	cooking					tree rules
6	keep	to-infinitive	cooking not said here					tree rules
7	watch	gerund	cooking not said here					vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
8	come	past	pot				aboil, same property	vn escape-51.1-1 «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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