Peter Pan, Chapter XVI. THE RETURN HOME, sentence 29
How delicious to spoil it all by breaking the news in advance; so that when they enter grandly Mrs. Darling may not even offer Wendy her mouth, and Mr. Darling may exclaim pettishly, “Dash it all, here are those boys again.”
Who acts: children, grandly Mrs. Darling, Darling · What happens: spoil, break, enter, not offer, exclaim, dash · To what, where: surprise, news, advance, mouth, Wendy · 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 (children, grandly Mrs. Darling, Darling), 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 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 delicious | advmod |
| 2 | delicious | delicious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 spoil | advcl |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 spoil | mark |
| 4 | spoil | spoil | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 spoil | obj |
| 6 | all | all | ADV | _ | 4 spoil | advmod |
| 7 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 8 breaking | mark |
| 8 | breaking | break | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 spoil | advcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 news | det |
| 10 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 breaking | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 advance | case |
| 12 | advance | advance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 breaking | obl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 offer | punct |
| 14 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 18 enter | mark |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 so | fixed |
| 16 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 enter | advmod |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 enter | nsubj |
| 18 | enter | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 offer | advcl |
| 19 | grandly | grandly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 Darling | amod |
| 20 | Mrs. | Mrs. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Darling | compound |
| 21 | Darling | darling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 offer | nsubj |
| 22 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 offer | aux |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 offer | advmod |
| 24 | even | even | ADV | _ | 25 offer | advmod |
| 25 | offer | offer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 spoil | conj |
| 26 | Wendy | Wendy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 offer | obj |
| 27 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 28 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 offer | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 exclaim | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 exclaim | cc |
| 31 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 Darling | nmod:desc |
| 32 | Darling | Darling | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 exclaim | nsubj |
| 33 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 exclaim | aux |
| 34 | exclaim | exclaim | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 spoil | conj |
| 35 | pettishly | pettishly | ADV | _ | 34 exclaim | advmod |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 Dash | punct |
| 37 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 38 Dash | punct |
| 38 | Dash | dash | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 spoil | conj |
| 39 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 Dash | obj |
| 40 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 39 it | det |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 boys | punct |
| 42 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 45 boys | advmod |
| 43 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 42 here | cop |
| 44 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 45 boys | det |
| 45 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 spoil | parataxis |
| 46 | again | again | ADV | _ | 45 boys | advmod |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 spoil | punct |
| 48 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 spoil | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spoil | to-infinitive | surprise | all property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | break | gerund | the news | advance | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer news=Patient | ||||
| 3 | enter | present | children = child | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | not offer | may | grandly Mrs. Darling | Darling's mouth | Wendy | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent wendy=Goal mouth=Theme | |||
| 5 | exclaim speech: express | may | Darling Mr. | pettishly property | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | dash in a quote | infinitive | surprise | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | |||||
| 7 | is in a quote | present | here 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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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