Peter Pan, Chapter VII. THE HOME UNDER THE GROUND, sentence 34

When she sat down to a basketful of their stockings, every heel with a hole in it, she would fling up her arms and exclaim, “Oh dear, I am sure I sometimes think spinsters are to be envied!”

Who acts: fireplace · What happens: sit down, fling up, exclaim, be, think, envy · To what, where: arms, spinsters · 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 (fireplace), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 sat	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sat	nsubj
3	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 sure	advcl
4	down	down	ADP	_	3 sat	compound:prt
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 basketful	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 basketful	det
7	basketful	basketful	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sat	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 stockings	case
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 stockings	nmod:poss
10	stockings	stocking	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 basketful	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 heel	punct
12	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	13 heel	det
13	heel	heel	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 basketful	conj
14	with	with	ADP	_	16 hole	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 hole	det
16	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 heel	nmod
17	in	in	ADP	_	18 it	case
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 hole	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 fling	punct
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 fling	nsubj
21	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 fling	aux
22	fling	fling	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 sat	conj
23	up	up	ADP	_	22 fling	compound:prt
24	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 arms	nmod:poss
25	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 fling	obj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 exclaim	cc
27	exclaim	exclaim	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 fling	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 dear	punct
29	“	"	PUNCT	_	31 dear	punct
30	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	31 dear	discourse
31	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 fling	parataxis
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 sat	punct
33	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 sure	nsubj
34	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 sure	cop
35	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
36	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	38 think	nsubj
37	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	38 think	advmod
38	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 sure	ccomp
39	spinsters	spinster	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 envied	nsubj:pass
40	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	43 envied	aux:pass
41	to	to	PART	_	43 envied	mark
42	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	43 envied	aux:pass
43	envied	envy	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	38 think	ccomp
44	!	!	PUNCT	_	43 envied	punct
45	”	"	PUNCT	_	38 think	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	sit down	past	fireplace		to a basketful of basketful's stockings and every heel with a hole in hole	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	fling up	would	fireplace	fireplace's arms		tree rules
3	exclaim speech: express	infinitive	fireplace not said here			vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
4	is in a quote	present	fireplace		sure property	tree rules
5	think speech: other in a quote	present	fireplace		sometimes property	vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
6	envy in a quote	present · passive		spinsters		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus

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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