Peter Pan, Chapter XVI. THE RETURN HOME, sentence 76

He gave his hat to Liza, who took it scornfully; for she had no imagination, and was quite incapable of understanding the motives of such a man.

Who acts: Nana, Liza, incapable · What happens: give, take, have, be, understand · To what, where: hat, Liza, imagination, incapable, motives

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, Liza, incapable), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gave	nsubj
2	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 hat	nmod:poss
4	hat	hat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gave	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 Liza	case
6	Liza	Liza	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 gave	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 took	punct
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 took	nsubj
9	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 Liza	acl:relcl
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 took	obj
11	scornfully	scornfully	ADV	_	9 took	advmod
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 had	punct
13	for	for	ADP	_	15 had	case
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 had	nsubj
15	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 gave	conj
16	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	17 imagination	det
17	imagination	imagination	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 had	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 incapable	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 incapable	cc
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 incapable	cop
21	quite	quite	ADV	_	22 incapable	advmod
22	incapable	incapable	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 had	obl
23	of	of	SCONJ	_	24 understanding	mark
24	understanding	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 incapable	acl
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 motives	det
26	motives	motive	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 understanding	obj
27	of	of	ADP	_	30 man	case
28	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	30 man	det:predet
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 man	det
30	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 motives	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	give	past	Nana	Nana's hat	Liza		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent hat=Theme to liza=Recipient
2	take	past	Liza	hat		scornfully property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	have	past	Liza	no imagination			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent imagination=Patient
4	is a	past		incapable			tree rules
5	understand	gerund	incapable not said here	the motives of such man			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer motive=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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