Peter Pan, Chapter I. PETER BREAKS THROUGH, sentence 44

They affected to ignore her as of an inferior social status to themselves, and she despised their light talk.

Who acts: kinds, Nana · What happens: affect, ignore, despise, talk · To what, where: Nana, kinds, light talk

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 (kinds, 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 affected	nsubj
2	affected	affect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 ignore	mark
4	ignore	ignore	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 affected	xcomp
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 ignore	obj
6	as	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	11 status	case
7	of	of	ADP	_	6 as	fixed
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 status	det
9	inferior	inferior	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 status	amod
10	social	social	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 status	amod
11	status	status	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ignore	obl
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 themselves	case
13	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 ignore	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 despised	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 despised	cc
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 despised	nsubj
17	despised	despise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 affected	conj
18	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 talk	nmod:poss
19	light	light	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 talk	amod
20	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 despised	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 affected	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	affect	past	kinds = kind				tree rules
2	ignore	to-infinitive	kinds = kind not said here	Nana	kinds = kind	as a inferior social status	vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
3	despise	past	Nana	kinds's light talk			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer talk=Stimulus
4	talk		kinds = kind				nom talk «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

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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