Peter Pan, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, sentence 253

They chuckled, boylike, because they would be late for bed; and it was all mother Wendy’s fault!

Who acts: boys, bed · What happens: chuckle, be · To what, where: fault

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 (boys, bed), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg16:1314): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 chuckled	nsubj
2	chuckled	chuckle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 boylike	punct
4	boylike	boylike	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 chuckled	advcl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 late	punct
6	because	because	SCONJ	_	10 late	mark
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 late	nsubj
8	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 late	aux
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 late	cop
10	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 chuckled	advcl
11	for	for	ADP	_	12 bed	case
12	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 late	obl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 fault	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 fault	cc
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 fault	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 fault	cop
17	all	all	ADV	_	21 fault	advmod
18	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 Wendy	compound
19	Wendy	Wendy	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 fault	nmod:poss
20	’s	's	PART	_	19 Wendy	case
21	fault	fault	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 chuckled	conj
22	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 chuckled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	chuckle	past	boys = boy			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	would	boys = boy		for bed; late property	tree rules
3	is a	past	bed	mother Wendy's fault	all property	tree rules

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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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