Peter Pan, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, sentence 21

The rock was not much larger than their great bed, but of course they all knew how not to take up much room, and they were dozing, or at least lying with their eyes shut, and pinching occasionally when they thought Wendy was not looking.

Who acts: rock, children, Wendy · What happens: not be, know, not take up, doze, lie, pinch · To what, where: much room, least · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (rock, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 rock	det
2	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 larger	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 larger	cop
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 larger	advmod
5	much	much	ADV	_	6 larger	advmod
6	larger	large	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
7	than	than	ADP	_	10 bed	case
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 bed	nmod:poss
9	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 bed	amod
10	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 larger	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 knew	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 knew	cc
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 they	case
14	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 of	fixed
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 knew	nsubj
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 knew	advmod
17	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 larger	conj
18	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	21 take	advmod
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 take	advmod
20	to	to	PART	_	21 take	mark
21	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 knew	ccomp
22	up	up	ADP	_	21 take	compound:prt
23	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 room	amod
24	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 take	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 dozing	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 dozing	cc
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 dozing	nsubj
28	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 dozing	aux
29	dozing	doze	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 knew	parataxis
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 lying	punct
31	or	or	CCONJ	_	34 lying	cc
32	at	at	ADP	_	33 least	case
33	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	34 lying	obl
34	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 dozing	conj
35	with	with	ADP	_	37 eyes	case
36	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 eyes	nmod:poss
37	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 lying	obl
38	shut	shut	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 lying	xcomp
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 pinching	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 pinching	cc
41	pinching	pinch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 dozing	conj
42	occasionally	occasionally	ADV	_	41 pinching	advmod
43	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	45 thought	advmod
44	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 thought	nsubj
45	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 pinching	advcl
46	Wendy	Wendy	PROPN	Number=Sing	49 looking	nsubj
47	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 looking	aux
48	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	49 looking	advmod
49	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	45 thought	ccomp
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 larger	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not is	past	the rock			than children's great bed; large property	tree rules
2	know	past	children = child				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	not take up	to-infinitive		much room			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=Theme
4	doze	past · progressive	children = child				vn snooze-40.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	lie	gerund	children = child not said here		least	with children's eyes; shut property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at least=Location
6	pinch	gerund	children = child not said here			occasionally property	vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
7	think speech: other	past	children = child				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
8	not look	past · progressive	Wendy				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: 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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