Peter Pan, Chapter II. THE SHADOW, sentence 4

She returned to the nursery, and found Nana with something in her mouth, which proved to be the boy’s shadow.

Who acts: Mrs. · What happens: return, find, prove, be · To what, where: Nana, shadow

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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 returned	nsubj
2	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 nursery	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 nursery	det
5	nursery	nursery	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 returned	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 found	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 found	cc
8	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 returned	conj
9	Nana	Nana	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 found	obj
10	with	with	ADP	_	11 something	case
11	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	8 found	obl
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 mouth	case
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 mouth	nmod:poss
14	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 something	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 proved	punct
16	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 proved	nsubj
17	proved	prove	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 something	conj
18	to	to	PART	_	23 shadow	mark
19	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 shadow	cop
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 boy	det
21	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 shadow	nmod:poss
22	’s	's	PART	_	21 boy	case
23	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 proved	ccomp
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 returned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	return	past	Mrs.		to the nursery result	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to nursery=Result
2	find	past	Mrs. not said here	Nana	with something	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nana=Topic
3	prove	past				vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
4	is a	to-infinitive		the boy's shadow		tree rules

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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