Peter Pan, Chapter II. THE SHADOW, sentence 147

“What fun!” he said doubtfully, and they did not dare expose him when Mrs. Darling and Nana returned.

Who acts: father, children, Mrs. · What happens: say, not dare, not expose, return · To what, where: father · 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 (father, children, Mrs.), 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	_	3 fun	punct
2	What	what	DET	PronType=Int	3 fun	det
3	fun	fun	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	ccomp
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 fun	punct
5	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 fun	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 said	nsubj
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	doubtfully	doubtfully	ADV	_	7 said	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 dare	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 dare	cc
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 dare	nsubj
12	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 dare	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 dare	advmod
14	dare	dare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	conj
15	expose	expose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 dare	xcomp
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 expose	obj
17	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	22 returned	advmod
18	Mrs.	Mrs.	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 returned	nsubj
19	Darling	Darling	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Mrs.	flat
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 Nana	cc
21	Nana	Nana	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Mrs.	conj
22	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 expose	parataxis
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	father		doubtfully property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	not dare	past · do-support	children = child			vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not expose	infinitive	children = child not said here	father		vn indicate-78 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot he=Topic
4	return	past	Mrs. and Nana			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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