Peter Pan, Chapter XVII. WHEN WENDY GREW UP, sentence 17

Mrs. Darling exclaimed, pained to see her dear one showing himself in such an unfavourable light.

Who acts: Mrs., dear one · What happens: exclaim, pain, see, show · To what, where: dear one, George

This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XVII. WHEN WENDY GREW UP. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mrs., dear one), 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	Mrs.	Mrs.	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 exclaimed	nsubj
2	Darling	Darling	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Mrs.	flat
3	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 pained	punct
5	pained	pain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 exclaimed	xcomp
6	to	to	PART	_	7 see	mark
7	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 pained	xcomp
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 one	nmod:poss
9	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 one	amod
10	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 see	obj
11	showing	show	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 one	acl
12	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	11 showing	obj
13	in	in	ADP	_	17 light	case
14	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	17 light	det:predet
15	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 light	det
16	unfavourable	unfavourable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 light	amod
17	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 showing	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 exclaimed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	exclaim speech: express	past	Mrs.			vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	pain	participle	Mrs. not said here			tree rules
3	see	to-infinitive	Mrs. not said here	Mrs.'s dear one		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus
4	show	gerund	Mrs.'s dear one not said here	George	in such unfavourable light	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent himself=Patient in light=Topic

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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