Peter Pan, Chapter I. PETER BREAKS THROUGH, sentence 54

And gayest of all was Mrs. Darling, who would pirouette so wildly that all you could see of her was the kiss, and then if you had dashed at her you might have got it.

Who acts: Mrs., you, all · What happens: be, pirouette, see, dash, get · To what, where: Mrs., kiss

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., you, all), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	2 gayest	cc
2	gayest	gay	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 Mrs.	nmod:desc
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 all	case
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 gayest	obl
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 Mrs.	cop
6	Mrs.	Mrs.	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	Darling	Darling	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Mrs.	flat
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 pirouette	punct
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 pirouette	nsubj
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 pirouette	aux
11	pirouette	pirouette	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 Mrs.	conj
12	so	so	ADV	_	13 wildly	advmod
13	wildly	wildly	ADV	_	11 pirouette	advmod
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 kiss	mark
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	23 kiss	nsubj
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 see	nsubj
17	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 see	aux
18	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 all	acl:relcl
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 her	case
20	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 all	nmod
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 kiss	cop
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 kiss	det
23	kiss	kiss	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 pirouette	advcl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 got	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 got	cc
26	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	36 got	advmod
27	if	if	SCONJ	_	30 dashed	mark
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	30 dashed	nsubj
29	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 dashed	aux
30	dashed	dash	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	36 got	advcl
31	at	at	ADP	_	32 her	case
32	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 dashed	obl
33	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	36 got	nsubj
34	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 got	aux
35	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	36 got	aux
36	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 pirouette	parataxis
37	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 got	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 Mrs.	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		Mrs.		gayest nmod:desc	tree rules
2	pirouette	would	Mrs.			wildly property	vn waltz-51.5 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
3	see	could	you				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	is a	past	all	the kiss			tree rules
5	dash a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	you			at Mrs.	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at she=Trajectory
6	get	might · perfect	you	kiss	then		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=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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