Peter Pan, Chapter I. PETER BREAKS THROUGH, sentence 23

Mr. Darling was frightfully proud of her, but he was very honourable, and he sat on the edge of Mrs. Darling’s bed, holding her hand and calculating expenses, while she looked at him imploringly.

Who acts: Darling, Wendy · What happens: be, sit, hold, calculate, look · To what, where: edge, hand, expenses

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, Wendy), 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	5 proud	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 proud	cop
4	frightfully	frightfully	ADV	_	5 proud	advmod
5	proud	proud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 her	case
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 proud	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 honourable	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 honourable	cc
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 honourable	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 honourable	cop
12	very	very	ADV	_	13 honourable	advmod
13	honourable	honourable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 proud	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 sat	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 sat	cc
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 sat	nsubj
17	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 proud	parataxis
18	on	on	ADP	_	20 edge	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 edge	det
20	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 sat	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	25 bed	case
22	Mrs.	Mrs.	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 Darling	compound
23	Darling	Darling	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 bed	nmod:poss
24	’s	's	PART	_	23 Darling	case
25	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 edge	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 holding	punct
27	holding	hold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 sat	advcl
28	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 hand	nmod:poss
29	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 holding	obj
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 calculating	cc
31	calculating	calculate	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 holding	conj
32	expenses	expense	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 calculating	obj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 looked	punct
34	while	while	SCONJ	_	36 looked	mark
35	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 looked	nsubj
36	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 sat	conj
37	at	at	ADP	_	38 him	case
38	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 looked	obl
39	imploringly	imploringly	ADV	_	36 looked	advmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 proud	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	Darling Mr.			of Wendy; frightfully, proud property	tree rules
2	is	past	Darling			honourable property	tree rules
3	sit	past	Darling		the edge of Mrs. Darling's bed		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on edge=Location
4	hold	gerund	Darling not said here	Wendy's hand			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme
5	calculate	gerund	Darling not said here	expenses			tree rules
6	look	past	Wendy			at Darling; imploringly property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=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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