Peter Pan, Chapter XVI. THE RETURN HOME, sentence 54

Very touching was his deference to Nana.

Who acts: touching · What happens: touch, be · To what, where: deference, 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 (touching), 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	Very	very	ADV	_	2 touching	advmod
2	touching	touch	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 deference	csubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 deference	cop
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 deference	nmod:poss
5	deference	deference	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 Nana	case
7	Nana	Nana	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 deference	nmod
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 deference	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	touch	gerund							vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	past	touching	man's deference	Nana				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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