Peter Pan, Chapter VII. THE HOME UNDER THE GROUND, sentence 67

Sometimes he came home with his head bandaged, and then Wendy cooed over him and bathed it in lukewarm water, while he told a dazzling tale.

Who acts: sort, head, Wendy · What happens: come, bandage, coo, bath, tell · To what, where: head, lukewarm water, dazzling tale · 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 (sort, head, Wendy), 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	Sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	3 came	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	home	home	ADV	_	3 came	advmod
5	with	with	SCONJ	_	8 bandaged	mark
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 head	nmod:poss
7	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bandaged	nsubj
8	bandaged	bandage	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	advcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 cooed	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 cooed	cc
11	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 cooed	advmod
12	Wendy	Wendy	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 cooed	nsubj
13	cooed	coo	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	parataxis
14	over	over	ADP	_	15 him	case
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 cooed	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 bathed	cc
17	bathed	bath	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 cooed	conj
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 bathed	obj
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 water	case
20	lukewarm	lukewarm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 water	amod
21	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 bathed	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 told	punct
23	while	while	SCONJ	_	25 told	mark
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 told	nsubj
25	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 bathed	conj
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 tale	det
27	dazzling	dazzling	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 tale	compound
28	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 told	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	sort				home, sometimes property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	bandage	past	sort's head					vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
3	coo	past	Wendy			then	over sort	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	bath	past	Wendy not said here	head	lukewarm water			tree rules
5	tell speech: assert	past	sort	a dazzling tale				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tale=Recipient

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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