Peter Pan, Chapter I. PETER BREAKS THROUGH, sentence 15

Mr. Darling used to boast to Wendy that her mother not only loved him but respected him.

Who acts: Darling, mother · What happens: use, boast, not love, respect · To what, where: Wendy, Darling

This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter I. PETER BREAKS THROUGH. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Darling, mother), 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	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Darling	nmod:desc
2	Darling	Darling	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 used	nsubj
3	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 boast	mark
5	boast	boast	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 used	xcomp
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 Wendy	case
7	Wendy	Wendy	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 boast	obl
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 loved	mark
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 mother	nmod:poss
10	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 loved	nsubj
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 loved	advmod
12	only	only	ADV	_	13 loved	advmod
13	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 boast	advcl
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 loved	obj
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 respected	cc
16	respected	respect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 loved	conj
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 respected	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 used	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	use	past	Darling Mr.			vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	boast speech: other	to-infinitive	Darling Mr. not said here		Wendy	vn complain-37.8 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to wendy=Recipient
3	not love	past	Wendy's mother	Darling		vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
4	respect	past	Wendy's mother not said here	Darling		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=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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