Peter Pan, Chapter I. PETER BREAKS THROUGH, sentence 75

Occasionally in her travels through her children’s minds Mrs. Darling found things she could not understand, and of these quite the most perplexing was the word Peter.

Who acts: Mrs. Darling, pond, these, children · What happens: travel, find, not understand, perplex, be, mind · To what, where: minds, things

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. Darling, pond, these, children), 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	Occasionally	occasionally	ADV	_	4 travels	advmod
2	in	in	SCONJ	_	4 travels	mark
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 travels	nmod:poss
4	travels	travel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	through	through	ADP	_	9 minds	case
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 children	nmod:poss
7	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 minds	nmod:poss
8	’s	's	PART	_	7 children	case
9	minds	mind	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 travels	obl
10	Mrs.	Mrs.	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Darling	compound
11	Darling	darling	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 found	nsubj
12	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 minds	acl:relcl
13	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 found	obj
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 understand	nsubj
15	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 understand	aux
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 understand	advmod
17	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 things	acl:relcl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 word	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 word	cc
20	of	of	ADP	_	28 word	case
21	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	28 word	nsubj
22	quite	quite	DET	PronType=Ind	28 word	det:predet
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 word	det
24	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	25 perplexing	advmod
25	perplexing	perplex	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	28 word	amod
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 word	cop
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 word	det
28	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 travels	obl
29	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 word	appos
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 travels	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	travel	present			pond's children's minds	occasionally property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through mind=Trajectory
2	find	past	Mrs. Darling	things			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Topic
3	not understand	could	pond	things not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus
4	perplex	gerund					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
5	is	past	these			of quite perplexing word	tree rules
6	mind		pond's children				nom mind «cognition transitive»: 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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