Peter Pan, Chapter II. THE SHADOW, sentence 151
Mr. Darling was frightfully ashamed of himself, but he would not give in.
Who acts: Darling, Mr. · What happens: be, not give in
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, Mr.), 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 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Darling | nmod:desc |
| 2 | Darling | Darling | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 ashamed | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 ashamed | cop |
| 4 | frightfully | frightfully | ADV | _ | 5 ashamed | advmod |
| 5 | ashamed | ashamed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 himself | case |
| 7 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 ashamed | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 give | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 give | cc |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 give | nsubj |
| 11 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 give | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 give | advmod |
| 13 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 ashamed | parataxis |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 give | compound:prt |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 ashamed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Darling Mr. | of Mr.; ashamed, frightfully property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not give in | would | Mr. | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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