--- title: When she sat down to a basketful of their stockings, every heel with… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics description: When she sat down to a basketful of their stockings, every heel with a hole in it, she would fling up her arms and exclaim, “Oh dear, I am sure I sometimes think spinsters are to be envied!” Who acts: fireplace. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter VII. THE HOME UNDER THE GROUND, with --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/8/34/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Peter Pan](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/) / [Chapter VII. THE HOME UNDER THE GROUND](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/8/) / 34 # Peter Pan, Chapter VII. THE HOME UNDER THE GROUND, sentence 34 When she sat down to a basketful of their stockings, every heel with a hole in it, she would fling up her arms and exclaim, “Oh dear, I am sure I sometimes think spinsters are to be envied!” **Who acts:** fireplace · **What happens:** sit down, fling up, exclaim, be, think, envy · **To what, where:** arms, spinsters · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter VII. THE HOME UNDER THE GROUND. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fireplace), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg16:8:34 # text = When she sat down to a basketful of their stockings, every heel with a hole in it, she would fling up her arms and exclaim, “Oh dear, I am sure I sometimes think spinsters are to be envied!” 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 3 advmod _ _ 2 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 sat sit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 advcl _ _ 4 down down ADP RP _ 3 compound:prt _ _ 5 to to ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 basketful basketful NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 stockings stocking NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 13 det _ _ 13 heel heel NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ _ 14 with with ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 hole hole NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 17 in in ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 21 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 22 fling fling VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 23 up up ADP RP _ 22 compound:prt _ _ 24 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 arms arm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obj _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 exclaim exclaim VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 “ " PUNCT `` _ 31 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 30 Oh oh INTJ UH _ 31 discourse _ _ 31 dear dear ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 33 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 34 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 cop _ _ 35 sure sure ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 36 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 37 sometimes sometimes ADV RB PronType=Ind 38 advmod _ _ 38 think think VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 ccomp _ _ 39 spinsters spinster NOUN NNS Number=Plur 43 nsubj:pass _ _ 40 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 43 aux:pass _ _ 41 to to PART TO _ 43 mark _ _ 42 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 43 aux:pass _ _ 43 envied envy VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 38 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 44 ! ! PUNCT . _ 43 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 45 ” " PUNCT '' _ 38 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sit down** | past | fireplace | | | | | to a basketful of basketful's stockings and every heel with a hole in hole | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **fling up** | would | fireplace | fireplace's arms | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **exclaim** *speech: express* | infinitive | fireplace *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present | fireplace | | | | | sure *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **think** *speech: other* *in a quote* | present | fireplace | | | | | sometimes *property* | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 6 | **envy** *in a quote* | present · passive | | spinsters | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=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. - ← previous: [sentence 33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/8/33/) - next →: [sentence 35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/8/35/) - ↑ back to [Chapter VII. THE HOME UNDER THE GROUND](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/8/)