Peter Pan, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, sentence 19

So they lay there in the sun, and their bodies glistened in it, while she sat beside them and looked important.

Who acts: children, Wendy · What happens: lie, glisten, sit, look · To what, where: bodies, sun, mark

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 (children, 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 lay	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 lay	nsubj
3	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 lay	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 sun	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sun	det
7	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lay	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 bodies	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 bodies	cc
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 bodies	nmod:poss
11	bodies	body	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 lay	obl
12	glistened	glisten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 bodies	acl
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 it	case
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 glistened	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 sat	punct
16	while	while	SCONJ	_	18 sat	mark
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 sat	nsubj
18	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lay	parataxis
19	beside	beside	ADP	_	20 them	case
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 sat	obl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 looked	cc
22	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 sat	conj
23	important	important	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 looked	xcomp
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lie	past	children = child	children's bodies	the sun; there		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in sun=Location
2	glisten	participle		children's bodies not said here	mark		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in it=Location
3	sit	past	Wendy			beside children = child	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside they=Location
4	look	past	Wendy not said here			important property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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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