Peter Pan, Chapter VII. THE HOME UNDER THE GROUND, sentence 9

After a few days’ practice they could go up and down as gaily as buckets in a well.

Who acts: Wendy, few days · What happens: go up, practice

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 (Wendy, few days), 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	After	after	ADP	_	6 practice	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 days	det
3	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 days	amod
4	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 practice	nmod:poss
5	’	's	PART	_	4 days	case
6	practice	practice	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 go	obl
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 go	nsubj
8	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 go	aux
9	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	up	up	ADV	_	14 gaily	advmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 down	cc
12	down	down	ADV	_	10 up	conj
13	as	as	ADV	_	14 gaily	advmod
14	gaily	gaily	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 go	advcl
15	as	as	ADP	_	16 buckets	case
16	buckets	bucket	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 gaily	obl
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 well	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 well	det
19	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 buckets	nmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go up	could	Wendy				after a few days's practice		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	practice		a few days						nom practice «act transitive»: poss=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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