Peter Pan, Chapter XVI. THE RETURN HOME, sentence 135

“He is not so big as the pirate I killed,” he said with such frank disappointment that I am glad Mr. Darling was asleep; it would have been sad if those had been the first words he heard his little Michael say.

Who acts: father, such frank disappointment, disappointment, little Michael · What happens: not be, kill, say, be, hear · To what, where: pirate, first words · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XVI. THE RETURN HOME. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, such frank disappointment, disappointment, little Michael), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	6 big	punct
2	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 big	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 big	cop
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 big	advmod
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 big	advmod
6	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	as	as	ADP	_	9 pirate	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 pirate	det
9	pirate	pirate	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 big	obl
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 killed	nsubj
11	killed	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 pirate	acl:relcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 big	punct
13	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 big	punct
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 said	nsubj
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 big	parataxis
16	with	with	ADP	_	19 disappointment	case
17	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 disappointment	amod
18	frank	frank	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 disappointment	amod
19	disappointment	disappointment	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 said	obl
20	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 asleep	nsubj
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 asleep	nsubj
22	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 asleep	cop
23	glad	glad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 Darling	amod
24	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 Darling	nmod:desc
25	Darling	Darling	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 asleep	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 asleep	cop
27	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 disappointment	acl:relcl
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 sad	punct
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 sad	nsubj
30	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 sad	aux
31	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 sad	aux
32	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	33 sad	cop
33	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 big	conj
34	if	if	SCONJ	_	40 words	mark
35	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	40 words	det
36	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 been	aux
37	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	40 words	cop
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 words	det
39	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	40 words	amod
40	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 sad	conj
41	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 heard	nsubj
42	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 words	acl:relcl
43	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	45 Michael	nmod:poss
44	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 Michael	amod
45	Michael	Michael	PROPN	Number=Sing	46 say	nsubj
46	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	42 heard	ccomp
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 big	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not is in a quote	present	father		as the pirate; big property	tree rules
2	kill in a quote	past	father	the pirate not said here		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pirate=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	father		with such frank disappointment	vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent with disappointment=Manner
4	is	present	such frank disappointment		asleep property	tree rules
5	is	would · perfect	disappointment		sad property	tree rules
6	is a a condition, not said to happen	participle	disappointment not said here	that first words		tree rules
7	hear	past	father	that first words not said here		tree rules
8	say speech: assert	present	father's little Michael			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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