Peter Pan, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, sentence 36

She stood over them to let them have their sleep out.

Who acts: Wendy, oars · What happens: stand, let, have out, sleep · To what, where: oars, sleep

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, oars), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stood	nsubj
2	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	over	over	ADP	_	4 them	case
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stood	obl
5	to	to	PART	_	6 let	mark
6	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 stood	advcl
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 let	obj
8	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 let	xcomp
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 sleep	nmod:poss
10	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 have	obj
11	out	out	ADP	_	8 have	compound:prt
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	stand	past	Wendy		over oars = oar	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over they=Location
2	let	to-infinitive	Wendy not said here	oars = oar		tree rules
3	have out	infinitive	oars = oar not said here	oars's sleep		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sleep=Patient
4	sleep		oars = oar			nom sleep «state intransitive»: poss=agent

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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