Peter Pan, Chapter I. PETER BREAKS THROUGH, sentence 33

As they were poor, owing to the amount of milk the children drank, this nurse was a prim Newfoundland dog, called Nana, who had belonged to no one in particular until the Darlings engaged her.

Who acts: neighbours, children, nurse, Nana, Darlings · What happens: be, owe, drink, call, belong, engage · To what, where: amount, prim Newfoundland dog, one, particular, Nana, milk · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (neighbours, children, nurse, Nana), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	4 poor	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 poor	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 poor	cop
4	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 dog	advcl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 owing	punct
6	owing	owe	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 poor	advcl
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 amount	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 amount	det
9	amount	amount	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 owing	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 milk	case
11	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 amount	nmod
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 children	det
13	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 drank	nsubj
14	drank	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 amount	acl:relcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 poor	punct
16	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 nurse	det
17	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 dog	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 dog	cop
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 dog	det
20	prim	prim	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 dog	amod
21	Newfoundland	Newfoundland	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 dog	compound
22	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 called	punct
24	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 dog	acl
25	Nana	Nana	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 called	xcomp
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 belonged	punct
27	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 belonged	nsubj
28	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 belonged	aux
29	belonged	belong	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	25 Nana	acl
30	to	to	ADP	_	32 one	case
31	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	32 one	det
32	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 belonged	obl
33	in	in	ADP	_	34 particular	case
34	particular	particular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 belonged	obl
35	until	until	SCONJ	_	38 engaged	mark
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 Darlings	det
37	Darlings	darling	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 engaged	nsubj
38	engaged	engage	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 particular	advcl
39	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 engaged	obj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 dog	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	neighbours = neighbour				poor property	tree rules
2	owe	gerund	neighbours = neighbour not said here				to the amount of milk goal	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent to amount=Goal
3	drink	past	the children	the amount of milk not said here				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent amount=Patient
4	is a	past	this nurse	a prim Newfoundland dog				tree rules
5	call	participle		a prim Newfoundland dog not said here				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	belong	past · perfect	Nana		no one	particular		vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme
7	engage	past	the Darlings	Nana				vn amalgamate-22.2-3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient
8	amount			milk				nom amount «possession transitive»: of=patient

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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