Peter Pan, Chapter XVI. THE RETURN HOME, sentence 58

Inwardly he must have suffered torture; but he preserved a calm exterior even when the young criticised his little home, and he always lifted his hat courteously to any lady who looked inside.

Who acts: Nana, young, lady · What happens: suffer, preserve, criticise, lift, look · To what, where: torture, calm exterior, little home, hat, lady

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, young, lady), 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	Inwardly	inwardly	ADV	_	5 suffered	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 suffered	nsubj
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 suffered	aux
4	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 suffered	aux
5	suffered	suffer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	torture	torture	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 suffered	obj
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 preserved	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 preserved	cc
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 preserved	nsubj
10	preserved	preserve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 suffered	parataxis
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 exterior	det
12	calm	calm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 exterior	amod
13	exterior	exterior	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 preserved	obj
14	even	even	ADV	_	18 criticised	advmod
15	when	when	SCONJ	_	18 criticised	mark
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 young	det
17	young	young	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 criticised	nsubj
18	criticised	criticise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 preserved	advcl
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 home	nmod:poss
20	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 home	amod
21	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 criticised	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 lifted	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 lifted	cc
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 lifted	nsubj
25	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	26 lifted	advmod
26	lifted	lift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 preserved	conj
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 hat	nmod:poss
28	hat	hat	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 lifted	obj
29	courteously	courteously	ADV	_	26 lifted	advmod
30	to	to	ADP	_	32 lady	case
31	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	32 lady	det
32	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 lifted	obl
33	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 looked	nsubj
34	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 lady	acl:relcl
35	inside	inside	ADV	_	34 looked	advmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 suffered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	suffer	must · perfect	Nana	torture		inwardly property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer torture=Stimulus
2	preserve	past	Nana	a calm exterior			vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent exterior=Beneficiary
3	criticise	past	the young	Nana's little home			tree rules
4	lift	past	Nana	Nana's hat	any lady	always, courteously property	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hat=Theme to lady=Destination
5	look	past	any lady			inside property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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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