Peter Pan, Chapter II. THE SHADOW, sentence 101

“Ever so much nastier,” Mr. Darling said bravely, “and I would take it now as an example to you, Michael, if I hadn’t lost the bottle.”

Who acts: Darling · What happens: say, take, not lose · To what, where: medicine, you, bottle · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter II. THE SHADOW. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Darling), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	5 nastier	punct
2	Ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	3 so	advmod
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 much	advmod
4	much	much	ADV	_	5 nastier	advmod
5	nastier	nasty	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 said	ccomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 nastier	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 nastier	punct
8	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Darling	nmod:desc
9	Darling	Darling	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	bravely	bravely	ADV	_	10 said	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 take	punct
13	“	"	PUNCT	_	17 take	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 take	cc
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 take	nsubj
16	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 take	aux
17	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 take	obj
19	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 take	advmod
20	as	as	ADP	_	22 example	case
21	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 example	det
22	example	example	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 take	obl
23	to	to	ADP	_	24 you	case
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 take	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 Michael	punct
26	Michael	Michael	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 take	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 lost	punct
28	if	if	SCONJ	_	32 lost	mark
29	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 lost	nsubj
30	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 lost	aux
31	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	32 lost	advmod
32	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 take	advcl
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 bottle	det
34	bottle	bottle	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 lost	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 take	punct
36	”	"	PUNCT	_	17 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Darling Mr.				bravely property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	take in a quote	would	Darling Mr. = darling	medicine	you	now	as a example; Michael obl	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to you=Destination
3	not lose a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	past · perfect	Darling Mr. = darling	the bottle				vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bottle=Eventuality

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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