Peter Pan, Chapter I. PETER BREAKS THROUGH, sentence 88
Mrs. Darling consulted Mr. Darling, but he smiled pooh-pooh.
Who acts: Mrs., Peter · What happens: consult, smile · To what, where: Darling, pooh pooh
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., Peter), 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 | Mrs. | Mrs. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 consulted | nsubj |
| 2 | Darling | Darling | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Mrs. | flat |
| 3 | consulted | consult | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Darling | nmod:desc |
| 5 | Darling | Darling | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 consulted | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 smiled | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 smiled | cc |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 smiled | nsubj |
| 9 | smiled | smile | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 consulted | parataxis |
| 10 | pooh | pooh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 pooh | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 pooh | punct |
| 12 | pooh | pooh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 smiled | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 consulted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | consult | past | Mrs. | Darling Mr. | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent darling=Theme | ||||
| 2 | smile | past | Peter | pooh pooh | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pooh=Topic |
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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