Peter Pan, Chapter II. THE SHADOW, sentence 28
Many a time it was Mr. Darling who put the handkerchief to Nana’s eyes.
Who acts: Many time, Mr. Darling · What happens: be, put · To what, where: Mr. Darling, handkerchief
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 (Many time, Mr. Darling), 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 time | amod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Darling | nsubj |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 Darling | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 Darling | cop |
| 6 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Darling | compound |
| 7 | Darling | darling | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 put | nsubj |
| 9 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 Darling | acl:relcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 handkerchief | det |
| 11 | handkerchief | handkerchief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 put | obj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 eyes | case |
| 13 | Nana | Nana | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 14 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 13 Nana | case |
| 15 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 put | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 Darling | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | a Many time | Mr. Darling | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | put | past | Mr. Darling | the handkerchief | to Nana's eyes | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent handkerchief=Goal |
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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