Peter Pan, Chapter XVI. THE RETURN HOME, sentence 49
To all Mrs. Darling’s dear invitations to him to come out he replied sadly but firmly:
Who acts: Nana, dear invitations, Mrs. Darling · What happens: come out, reply, invite · 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 (Nana, dear invitations, Mrs. 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 | To | to | ADP | _ | 2 all | case |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 Darling | det |
| 3 | Mrs. | Mrs. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Darling | compound |
| 4 | Darling | Darling | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 invitations | nmod:poss |
| 5 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 4 Darling | case |
| 6 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 invitations | amod |
| 7 | invitations | invitation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 replied | nsubj |
| 8 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 11 come | mark |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 come | nsubj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 come | mark |
| 11 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 replied | ccomp |
| 12 | out | out | ADV | _ | 11 come | advmod |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 replied | nsubj |
| 14 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | sadly | sadly | ADV | _ | 14 replied | advmod |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 firmly | cc |
| 17 | firmly | firmly | ADV | _ | 15 sadly | conj |
| 18 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come out | to-infinitive | Nana | out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | all Mrs. Darling's dear invitations | sadly property | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | invite | all Mrs. Darling | nom invitation «communication transitive»: poss=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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