Peter Pan, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, sentence 17

It must also have been rather pretty to see the children resting on a rock for half an hour after their mid-day meal.

Who acts: mark, children · What happens: have, be, see, rest · To what, where: children, rock

This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mark, children), 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	4 have	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 have	aux
3	also	also	ADV	_	4 have	advmod
4	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 pretty	cop
6	rather	rather	ADV	_	7 pretty	advmod
7	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	4 have	xcomp
8	to	to	PART	_	9 see	mark
9	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 pretty	advcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 children	det
11	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 see	obj
12	resting	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 children	acl
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 rock	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 rock	det
15	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 resting	obl
16	for	for	ADP	_	19 hour	case
17	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	19 hour	det:predet
18	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 hour	det
19	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 resting	obl
20	after	after	ADP	_	23 meal	case
21	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 meal	nmod:poss
22	mid-day	mid-day	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 meal	compound
23	meal	meal	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 resting	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	must	mark					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is	participle	mark not said here				pretty property	tree rules
3	see	to-infinitive	mark not said here	the children				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer child=Stimulus
4	rest	gerund	the children not said here		a rock	after children's mid-day meal; hour		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on rock=Location

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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