Peter Pan, Chapter II. THE SHADOW, sentence 37
Then Mrs. Darling had come in, wearing her white evening-gown.
Who acts: Mrs. · What happens: come in, wear · To what, where: white evening gown
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.), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 come | advmod |
| 2 | Mrs. | Mrs. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 come | nsubj |
| 3 | Darling | Darling | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Mrs. | flat |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 come | aux |
| 5 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADV | _ | 5 come | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 wearing | punct |
| 8 | wearing | wear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 come | advcl |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 gown | nmod:poss |
| 10 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 gown | amod |
| 11 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 gown | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 evening | punct |
| 13 | gown | gown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 wearing | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in | past · perfect | Mrs. | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | wear | gerund | Mrs. not said here | Mrs.'s white evening gown | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent gown=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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