Peter Pan, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, sentence 23

While she stitched a change came to the lagoon.

Who acts: Wendy, change · What happens: stitch, come · To what, where: lagoon

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 (Wendy, change), 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	While	while	SCONJ	_	3 stitched	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 stitched	nsubj
3	stitched	stitch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 change	det
5	change	change	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	nsubj
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 stitched	ccomp
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 lagoon	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 lagoon	det
9	lagoon	lagoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	obl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 stitched	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stitch	past	Wendy						tree rules
2	come	past	a change			the lagoon			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to lagoon=Initial_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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