Peter Pan, Chapter I. PETER BREAKS THROUGH, sentence 18

Mrs. Darling was married in white, and at first she kept the books perfectly, almost gleefully, as if it were a game, not so much as a Brussels sprout was missing; but by and by whole cauliflowers dropped out, and instead of them there were pictures of babies without faces.

Who acts: Mrs., course, Brussels sprout, whole cauliflowers, pictures · What happens: marry, keep, be, drop out · To what, where: Mrs., white, books, game

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 (Mrs., course, Brussels sprout, whole cauliflowers), 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	4 married	nsubj:pass
2	Darling	Darling	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Mrs.	flat
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 married	aux:pass
4	married	marry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 white	case
6	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 married	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 kept	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 kept	cc
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 first	case
10	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	12 kept	obl
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 kept	nsubj
12	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 married	conj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 books	det
14	books	book	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 kept	obj
15	perfectly	perfectly	ADV	_	12 kept	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 gleefully	punct
17	almost	almost	ADV	_	18 gleefully	advmod
18	gleefully	gleefully	ADV	_	12 kept	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 game	punct
20	as	as	SCONJ	_	25 game	mark
21	if	if	SCONJ	_	25 game	mark
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 game	nsubj
23	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 game	cop
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 game	det
25	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 kept	parataxis
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 much	punct
27	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 much	advmod
28	so	so	ADV	_	29 much	advmod
29	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 game	appos
30	as	as	SCONJ	_	35 missing	mark
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 sprout	det
32	Brussels	Brussels	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 sprout	compound
33	sprout	sprout	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 missing	nsubj
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 missing	cop
35	missing	missing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 much	advcl
36	;	;	PUNCT	_	43 dropped	punct
37	but	but	CCONJ	_	43 dropped	cc
38	by	by	SCONJ	_	43 dropped	mark
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 dropped	cc
40	by	by	ADP	_	42 cauliflowers	case
41	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 cauliflowers	amod
42	cauliflowers	cauliflower	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 dropped	nsubj
43	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 married	parataxis
44	out	out	ADP	_	43 dropped	compound:prt
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 were	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 were	cc
47	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	49 them	case
48	of	of	ADP	_	47 instead	fixed
49	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 were	obl
50	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	51 were	expl
51	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 dropped	conj
52	pictures	picture	NOUN	Number=Plur	51 were	nsubj
53	of	of	ADP	_	54 babies	case
54	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	52 pictures	nmod
55	without	without	ADP	_	56 faces	case
56	faces	face	NOUN	Number=Plur	54 babies	nmod
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 married	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	marry	past · passive		Mrs.	white		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	keep	past	Mrs.	the books		gleefully, perfectly property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent book=Theme at first=Location
3	is a a condition, not said to happen	past	course	a game			tree rules
4	is	past	a Brussels sprout			missing property	tree rules
5	drop out	past	whole cauliflowers				vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
6	be	past	pictures of babies without faces		there	instead cauliflowers = cauliflower	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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