Peter Pan, Chapter VII. THE HOME UNDER THE GROUND, sentence 61

It consisted in pretending not to have adventures, in doing the sort of thing John and Michael had been doing all their lives, sitting on stools flinging balls in the air, pushing each other, going out for walks and coming back without having killed so much as a grizzly.

Who acts: interest, sort · What happens: consist, pretend, not have, do, sit, fling · To what, where: adventures, lives, stools, balls, air, each

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 (interest, sort), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 consisted	nsubj
2	consisted	consist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	SCONJ	_	4 pretending	mark
4	pretending	pretend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 consisted	advcl
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 have	advmod
6	to	to	PART	_	7 have	mark
7	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 pretending	xcomp
8	adventures	adventure	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 have	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 doing	punct
10	in	in	SCONJ	_	11 doing	mark
11	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 consisted	advcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 sort	det
13	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 doing	nsubj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 thing	case
15	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sort	nmod
16	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 thing	appos
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 Michael	cc
18	Michael	Michael	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 John	conj
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 doing	aux
20	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 doing	aux
21	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 doing	conj
22	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	24 lives	det:predet
23	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 lives	nmod:poss
24	lives	life	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 doing	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 sitting	punct
26	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	21 doing	conj
27	on	on	ADP	_	28 stools	case
28	stools	stool	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 sitting	obl
29	flinging	fling	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 sitting	advcl
30	balls	ball	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 flinging	obj
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 air	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 air	det
33	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 flinging	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 pushing	punct
35	pushing	push	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 doing	conj
36	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	35 pushing	obj
37	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 each	fixed
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 going	punct
39	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 doing	conj
40	out	out	ADP	_	39 going	compound:prt
41	for	for	ADP	_	42 walks	case
42	walks	walk	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 going	obl
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 coming	cc
44	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 doing	conj
45	back	back	ADV	_	44 coming	advmod
46	without	without	SCONJ	_	47 having	mark
47	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	44 coming	advcl
48	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	47 having	xcomp
49	so	so	ADV	_	50 much	advmod
50	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 killed	obj
51	as	as	ADP	_	53 grizzly	case
52	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	53 grizzly	det
53	grizzly	grizzly	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 much	nmod
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 consisted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	consist	past	interest				tree rules
2	pretend	gerund	interest not said here				tree rules
3	not have	to-infinitive	interest not said here	adventures			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent adventure=Patient
4	do	gerund	interest not said here				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	do	past · perfect · progressive	the sort of thing	Adventures's lives			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Eventuality
6	sit	gerund	the sort of thing not said here		stools		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on stool=Location
7	fling	gerund	the sort of thing not said here	balls	the air		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent ball=Theme in air=Destination
8	push	gerund	the sort of thing not said here	each			vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent each=Theme
9	go out	gerund	interest not said here			for walks	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
10	come back	gerund	interest not said here				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
11	have	gerund	interest not said here				tree rules
12	kill	participle	interest not said here	much		as a grizzly	vn spend_time-104 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent much=Duration as grizzly=Attribute
13	sort			thing			nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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