Peter Pan, Chapter XVI. THE RETURN HOME, sentence 80

“There were several adults to-day,” he assured her with a faint flush; but when she tossed her head he had not a word of reproof for her.

Who acts: several adults, Nana, Liza · What happens: be, assure, toss, have, word · To what, where: Liza, head, word, reproof

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 (several adults, Nana, Liza), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	3 were	punct
2	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 were	expl
3	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 assured	advcl
4	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 adults	amod
5	adults	adult	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 were	nsubj
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 day	case
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 to	punct
8	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 adults	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 were	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 were	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 assured	nsubj
12	assured	assure	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 assured	iobj
14	with	with	ADP	_	17 flush	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 flush	det
16	faint	faint	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 flush	amod
17	flush	flush	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 assured	obl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 tossed	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 tossed	cc
20	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	22 tossed	advmod
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 tossed	nsubj
22	tossed	toss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 assured	conj
23	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 head	nmod:poss
24	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 tossed	obj
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 had	nsubj
26	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 tossed	ccomp
27	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 word	advmod
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 word	det
29	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 had	obj
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 reproof	case
31	reproof	reproof	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 word	nmod
32	for	for	ADP	_	33 her	case
33	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 reproof	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 assured	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	be in a quote	past	several adults to day			there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	assure	past	Nana		Liza		with a faint flush	vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
3	toss	past	Liza	Liza's head				tree rules
4	have	past	Nana	a word of reproof for Liza				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient
5	word			reproof for Liza				nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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