Peter Pan, Chapter X. THE HAPPY HOME, sentence 43

Once Tootles began, which was not very often, he had a silly way of going on.

Who acts: Tootles, Wendy, silly way · What happens: begin, not have, be, go on · To what, where: silly way

This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter X. THE HAPPY HOME. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tootles, Wendy, silly way), 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	Once	once	SCONJ	_	3 began	mark
2	Tootles	tootle	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 began	nsubj
3	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 way	punct
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 way	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 way	cop
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 had	advmod
8	very	very	ADV	_	9 often	advmod
9	often	often	ADV	_	12 had	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 had	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 had	nsubj
12	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 way	parataxis
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 way	det
14	silly	silly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 way	amod
15	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 began	obl
16	of	of	SCONJ	_	17 going	mark
17	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 way	acl
18	on	on	ADP	_	17 going	compound:prt
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	begin	past	Tootles			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	not have	past	Wendy		often property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	is a	past		a silly way		tree rules
4	go on	gerund	a silly way not said here			vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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