Peter Pan, Chapter VII. THE HOME UNDER THE GROUND, sentence 32
Wendy’s favourite time for sewing and darning was after they had all gone to bed.
Who acts: favourite time · What happens: be
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 (favourite time), 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 | Wendy | Wendy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 time | nmod:poss |
| 2 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 1 Wendy | case |
| 3 | favourite | favourite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 time | amod |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 gone | nsubj |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 sewing | case |
| 6 | sewing | sewing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 time | nmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 darning | cc |
| 8 | darning | darning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sewing | conj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 gone | cop |
| 10 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 14 gone | mark |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 gone | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 gone | aux |
| 13 | all | all | ADV | _ | 14 gone | advmod |
| 14 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 bed | case |
| 16 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 gone | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 gone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past · perfect | Wendy's favourite time for sewing and darning | to bed; all, go property | tree rules |
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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