Peter Pan, Chapter VII. THE HOME UNDER THE GROUND, sentence 62

To see Peter doing nothing on a stool was a great sight; he could not help looking solemn at such times, to sit still seemed to him such a comic thing to do.

Who acts: Peter, sort · What happens: see, do, be, not help, look, sit · To what, where: Peter, nothing, stool, great sight, comic thing, sort

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 (Peter, 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	To	to	PART	_	2 see	mark
2	see	see	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 see	obj
4	doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 see	xcomp
5	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 doing	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 stool	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 stool	det
8	stool	stool	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 nothing	nmod
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 sight	cop
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 sight	det
11	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 sight	amod
12	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 doing	obl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 help	punct
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 help	nsubj
15	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 help	aux
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 help	advmod
17	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 see	conj
18	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 help	xcomp
19	solemn	solemn	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 looking	xcomp
20	at	at	ADP	_	22 times	case
21	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 times	amod
22	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 solemn	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 sit	punct
24	to	to	PART	_	25 sit	mark
25	sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	17 help	conj
26	still	still	ADV	_	27 seemed	advmod
27	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 sit	ccomp
28	to	to	ADP	_	29 him	case
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 seemed	obl
30	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	33 thing	det:predet
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 thing	det
32	comic	comic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 thing	amod
33	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 seemed	xcomp
34	to	to	PART	_	35 do	mark
35	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 thing	acl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	to-infinitive		Peter					tree rules
2	do	gerund	Peter not said here	nothing		a stool			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality
3	is a	past		a great sight					tree rules
4	not help	could	sort						vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	look not said to happen	gerund	sort not said here					solemn property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
6	sit	to-infinitive	sort not said here						tree rules
7	seem	past	sort not said here	such comic thing	sort		still		vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
8	do	to-infinitive	sort not said here	such comic thing not said here					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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