Peter Pan, Chapter II. THE SHADOW, sentence 15

“I ought to have been specially careful on a Friday,” she used to say afterwards to her husband, while perhaps Nana was on the other side of her, holding her hand.

Who acts: Mrs., Nana · What happens: be, use, say, hold · To what, where: husband, other side, hand · 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 (Mrs., Nana), 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	_	8 careful	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 ought	nsubj
3	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 careful	aux
4	to	to	PART	_	8 careful	mark
5	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 careful	aux
6	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 careful	cop
7	specially	specially	ADV	_	8 careful	advmod
8	careful	careful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 used	ccomp
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 Friday	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 Friday	det
11	Friday	Friday	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 careful	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 careful	punct
13	”	"	PUNCT	_	8 careful	punct
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 used	nsubj
15	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	to	to	PART	_	17 say	mark
17	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 used	xcomp
18	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	_	17 say	advmod
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 husband	case
20	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 husband	nmod:poss
21	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 say	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 side	punct
23	while	while	SCONJ	_	30 side	mark
24	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	25 Nana	advmod
25	Nana	Nana	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 side	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 side	cop
27	on	on	ADP	_	30 side	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 side	det
29	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 side	amod
30	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 used	obl
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 her	case
32	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 side	nmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 holding	punct
34	holding	hold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 used	advcl
35	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 hand	nmod:poss
36	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 holding	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 used	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	ought · perfect	Mrs. not said here				friday	careful, specially property	tree rules
2	use	past	Mrs.						vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	Mrs. not said here		Mrs.'s husband			afterwards property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to husband=Recipient
4	is	past	Nana			the other side		of Mrs.	tree rules
5	hold	gerund	Mrs. not said here	Mrs.'s hand					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=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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