Peter Pan, Chapter I. PETER BREAKS THROUGH, sentence 91

But it would not blow over and soon the troublesome boy gave Mrs. Darling quite a shock.

Who acts: sort, troublesome boy · What happens: not blow over, give · To what, where: Mrs. Darling

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 (sort, troublesome boy), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 blow	cc
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 blow	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 blow	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 blow	advmod
5	blow	blow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	over	over	ADV	_	5 blow	advmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 gave	cc
8	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 gave	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 boy	det
10	troublesome	troublesome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 boy	amod
11	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 gave	nsubj
12	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 blow	conj
13	Mrs.	Mrs.	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Darling	compound
14	Darling	darling	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 gave	obj
15	quite	quite	DET	PronType=Ind	17 shock	det:predet
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 shock	det
17	shock	shock	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 gave	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 blow	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not blow over	would	sort					over property	vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
2	give	past	the troublesome boy	Mrs. Darling				soon property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent darling=Recipient shock=Theme

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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