Peter Pan, Chapter II. THE SHADOW, sentence 146

It was the colour of milk; but the children did not have their father’s sense of humour, and they looked at him reproachfully as he poured the medicine into Nana’s bowl.

Who acts: milk, children, father · What happens: be, not have, look, pour, sense · To what, where: colour, sense, medicine, bowl, humour

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 (milk, children, father), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 colour	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 colour	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 colour	det
4	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 milk	case
6	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 colour	nmod
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 have	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 have	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 children	det
10	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 have	nsubj
11	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 have	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 have	advmod
13	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 colour	parataxis
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 father	nmod:poss
15	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 sense	nmod:poss
16	’s	's	PART	_	15 father	case
17	sense	sense	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 have	obj
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 humour	case
19	humour	humour	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 sense	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 looked	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 looked	cc
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 looked	nsubj
23	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 have	parataxis
24	at	at	ADP	_	25 him	case
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 looked	obl
26	reproachfully	reproachfully	ADV	_	23 looked	advmod
27	as	as	SCONJ	_	29 poured	mark
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 poured	nsubj
29	poured	pour	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 looked	advcl
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 medicine	det
31	medicine	medicine	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 poured	obj
32	into	into	ADP	_	35 bowl	case
33	Nana	Nana	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 bowl	nmod:poss
34	’s	's	PART	_	33 Nana	case
35	bowl	bowl	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 poured	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 colour	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	milk	the colour		of milk	tree rules
2	not have	past · do-support	the children	children's father's sense of humour			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sense=Patient
3	look	past	children = child			at father; reproachfully property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=Theme
4	pour	past	father	the medicine	Nana's bowl		vn pour-9.5 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent medicine=Theme into bowl=Destination
5	sense		children's father	humour			nom sense «cognition transitive»: poss=agent of=patient

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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