Peter Pan, Chapter XVI. THE RETURN HOME, sentence 52

Of course this was a pity; but whatever Mr. Darling did he had to do in excess, otherwise he soon gave up doing it.

Who acts: this, Darling, Nana · What happens: be, do, have, give up · To what, where: whatever, excess

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 (this, Darling, Nana), 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	Of	of	ADP	_	6 pity	case
2	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Of	fixed
3	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 pity	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 pity	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 pity	det
6	pity	pity	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 did	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 did	cc
9	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 did	obj
10	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Darling	nmod:desc
11	Darling	Darling	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 did	nsubj
12	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 pity	conj
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 had	nsubj
14	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 did	ccomp
15	to	to	PART	_	16 do	mark
16	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 had	xcomp
17	in	in	ADP	_	18 excess	case
18	excess	excess	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 do	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 gave	punct
20	otherwise	otherwise	ADV	_	23 gave	advmod
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 gave	nsubj
22	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	23 gave	advmod
23	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 do	conj
24	up	up	ADP	_	23 gave	compound:prt
25	doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	23 gave	xcomp
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 doing	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 pity	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	this			of a pity	tree rules
2	do	past	Darling Mr.	whatever			tree rules
3	have	past	Nana				tree rules
4	do	to-infinitive	Nana not said here		excess		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	give up	past	Nana			otherwise, soon property	tree rules
6	do	gerund	Nana not said here	excess			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

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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