Peter Pan, Chapter II. THE SHADOW, sentence 174

It was all owing to his too affectionate nature, which craved for admiration.

Who acts: nursery, affectionate nature · What happens: owe, crave · To what, where: affectionate nature

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 (nursery, affectionate nature), 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 owing	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 owing	aux
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 owing	advmod
4	owing	owe	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	9 nature	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 nature	nmod:poss
7	too	too	ADV	_	8 affectionate	advmod
8	affectionate	affectionate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 nature	amod
9	nature	nature	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 owing	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 craved	punct
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 craved	nsubj
12	craved	crave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 nature	acl:relcl
13	for	for	ADP	_	14 admiration	case
14	admiration	admiration	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 craved	obl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 owing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	owe	past · progressive	nursery					to George's affectionate nature goal	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent to nature=Goal
2	crave	past	George's affectionate nature					for admiration	vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for admiration=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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