Peter Pan, Chapter XVI. THE RETURN HOME, sentence 47
When the children flew away, Mr. Darling felt in his bones that all the blame was his for having chained Nana up, and that from first to last she had been wiser than he.
Who acts: children, Darling, bones, that · What happens: fly away, feel, be, have up, chain, last · To what, where: Mr., chained Nana
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, Darling, bones, that), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 flew | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 children | det |
| 3 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 flew | nsubj |
| 4 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 felt | advcl |
| 5 | away | away | ADV | _ | 4 flew | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 flew | punct |
| 7 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Darling | nmod:desc |
| 8 | Darling | Darling | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 felt | nsubj |
| 9 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 bones | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 bones | nmod:poss |
| 12 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 felt | obl |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 his | nsubj |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 blame | det:predet |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 blame | det |
| 16 | blame | blame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 his | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 his | cop |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 bones | acl:relcl |
| 19 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 20 having | mark |
| 20 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 felt | advcl |
| 21 | chained | chain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 Nana | amod |
| 22 | Nana | Nana | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 having | obj |
| 23 | up | up | ADP | _ | 20 having | compound:prt |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 last | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 last | cc |
| 26 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 30 last | nsubj |
| 27 | from | from | ADP | _ | 28 first | case |
| 28 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 30 last | obl |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 last | case |
| 30 | last | last | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 felt | conj |
| 31 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 wiser | nsubj |
| 32 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 wiser | aux |
| 33 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 34 wiser | cop |
| 34 | wiser | wise | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 30 last | parataxis |
| 35 | than | than | ADP | _ | 36 he | case |
| 36 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 wiser | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly away | past | the children | away property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | feel | past | Darling Mr. | in Mr.'s bones | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Theme in bone=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | Mr.'s bones | Mr. | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | have up | gerund | Darling Mr. not said here | chained Nana | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nana=Patient | ||||
| 5 | chain | participle | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 6 | last | infinitive | that | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | is | past · perfect | Darling | than Nana; wise 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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