Peter Pan, Chapter XVII. WHEN WENDY GREW UP, sentence 7

Of course Mrs. Darling said at once that she would have them; but Mr. Darling was curiously depressed, and they saw that he considered six a rather large number.

Who acts: Darling, boys, Mr. · What happens: say, have, be, see, consider · To what, where: boys, six · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Darling, boys, Mr.), 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	Of	of	ADP	_	4 Darling	case
2	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Of	fixed
3	Mrs.	Mrs.	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Darling	compound
4	Darling	Darling	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 said	obl
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 once	case
7	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	5 said	obl
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 have	mark
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 have	nsubj
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 have	aux
11	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	ccomp
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 have	obj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 depressed	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 depressed	cc
15	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Darling	nmod:desc
16	Darling	Darling	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 depressed	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 depressed	cop
18	curiously	curiously	ADV	_	19 depressed	advmod
19	depressed	depressed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 said	parataxis
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 saw	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 saw	cc
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 saw	nsubj
23	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 depressed	conj
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 considered	mark
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 considered	nsubj
26	considered	consider	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 saw	ccomp
27	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 considered	obj
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 number	det
29	rather	rather	ADV	_	30 large	advmod
30	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 number	amod
31	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 six	appos
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past			of Mrs. Darling	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	have	would	Darling	boys = boy		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
3	is	past	Darling Mr.		curiously, depressed property	tree rules
4	see	past	boys = boy			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	consider	past	Mr.	six		vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent six=Attribute

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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