Peter Pan, Chapter VII. THE HOME UNDER THE GROUND, sentence 33

Then, as she expressed it, she had a breathing time for herself; and she occupied it in making new things for them, and putting double pieces on the knees, for they were all most frightfully hard on their knees.

Who acts: fireplace, pieces · What happens: express, have, occupy, make, put, be · To what, where: lead, new things, double pieces, knees

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 (fireplace, pieces), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 expressed	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Then	punct
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	5 expressed	mark
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 expressed	nsubj
5	expressed	express	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 expressed	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 had	punct
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 had	nsubj
9	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 expressed	conj
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 time	det
11	breathing	breathing	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 time	compound
12	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 had	obj
13	for	for	ADP	_	14 herself	case
14	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	12 time	nmod
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 occupied	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 occupied	cc
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 occupied	nsubj
18	occupied	occupy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 expressed	conj
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 occupied	obj
20	in	in	SCONJ	_	21 making	mark
21	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 occupied	advcl
22	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 things	amod
23	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 making	obj
24	for	for	ADP	_	25 them	case
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 making	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 putting	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 putting	cc
28	putting	put	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 expressed	advcl
29	double	double	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 pieces	amod
30	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 putting	obj
31	on	on	ADP	_	33 knees	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 knees	det
33	knees	knee	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 putting	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 knees	punct
35	for	for	ADP	_	44 knees	case
36	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 knees	nsubj
37	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 knees	cop
38	all	all	ADV	_	40 frightfully	advmod
39	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	40 frightfully	advmod
40	frightfully	frightfully	ADV	_	41 hard	advmod
41	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	44 knees	advmod
42	on	on	ADP	_	44 knees	case
43	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 knees	nmod:poss
44	knees	knee	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 expressed	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 expressed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	express	past	fireplace	lead		then		vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	have	past	fireplace			time		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	occupy	past	fireplace	lead				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus it=Experiencer
4	make	gerund	fireplace not said here	new things			for things = thing	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent thing=Product for they=Asset
5	put	gerund	fireplace not said here	double pieces	the knees			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent piece=Theme on knee=Destination
6	is	past	pieces = piece				for pieces's knees; hard 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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