Peter Pan, Chapter VII. THE HOME UNDER THE GROUND, sentence 44

The other boys thought this awfully interesting, and insisted on joining, and they made slates for themselves, and sat round the table, writing and thinking hard about the questions she had written on another slate and passed round.

Who acts: other boys, boys, fireplace · What happens: think, insist, join, make, sit, write · To what, where: slates, questions, slate

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 (other boys, boys, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 boys	det
2	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 boys	amod
3	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 thought	nsubj
4	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 interesting	nsubj
6	awfully	awfully	ADV	_	7 interesting	advmod
7	interesting	interesting	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 thought	ccomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 insisted	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 insisted	cc
10	insisted	insist	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 thought	conj
11	on	on	SCONJ	_	12 joining	mark
12	joining	join	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 insisted	advcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 made	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 made	cc
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 made	nsubj
16	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 thought	parataxis
17	slates	slate	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 made	obj
18	for	for	ADP	_	19 themselves	case
19	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	16 made	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 sat	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 sat	cc
22	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 thought	parataxis
23	round	round	ADP	_	25 table	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 table	det
25	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 sat	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 writing	punct
27	writing	write	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 sat	advcl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 thinking	cc
29	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 writing	conj
30	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	29 thinking	advmod
31	about	about	ADP	_	33 questions	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 questions	det
33	questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 thinking	obl
34	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 written	nsubj
35	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 written	aux
36	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	33 questions	acl:relcl
37	on	on	ADP	_	39 slate	case
38	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	39 slate	det
39	slate	slate	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 written	obl
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 passed	cc
41	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	36 written	conj
42	round	round	ADV	_	41 passed	advmod
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	the other boys				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	insist speech: other	participle	the other boys not said here				vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
3	join	gerund	the other boys not said here				vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
4	make	past	boys = boy	slates		for boys = boy	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent slate=Product for themselves=Asset
5	sit	past				round the table	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	write	gerund					vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	think speech: other	gerund				about the questions; hard property	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about question=Topic
8	write	past · perfect	fireplace	the questions not said here	another slate		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent question=Theme on slate=Destination
9	pass round	participle	fireplace not said here			round property	vn occur-48.3-1 «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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