Peter Pan, Chapter II. THE SHADOW, sentence 42

“I am happy to inform you, Mrs. Darling, that you are now a mother,” in just such a tone as Mr. Darling himself may have used on the real occasion.

Who acts: John, you · What happens: be, inform, use · To what, where: Mrs. Darling, you, tone, mother, Mr., real occasion · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (John, you), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	4 happy	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 happy	nsubj
3	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 happy	cop
4	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 inform	mark
6	inform	inform	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 happy	xcomp
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 inform	iobj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 Darling	punct
9	Mrs.	Mrs.	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Darling	compound
10	Darling	Darling	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 inform	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 mother	punct
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 mother	mark
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 mother	nsubj
14	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 mother	cop
15	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 mother	advmod
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 mother	det
17	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 inform	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 mother	punct
19	”	"	PUNCT	_	17 mother	punct
20	in	in	ADP	_	24 tone	case
21	just	just	ADV	_	24 tone	advmod
22	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	24 tone	det:predet
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 tone	det
24	tone	tone	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 inform	obl
25	as	as	ADP	_	27 Darling	case
26	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 Darling	nmod:desc
27	Darling	Darling	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 tone	nmod
28	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	31 used	nsubj:pass
29	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 used	aux
30	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 used	aux
31	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 tone	parataxis
32	on	on	ADP	_	35 occasion	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 occasion	det
34	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 occasion	amod
35	occasion	occasion	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 used	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 happy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	John					happy property	tree rules
2	inform speech: other in a quote	to-infinitive	John not said here	Mrs. Darling	you	such tone as Darling Mr.			vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
3	is a in a quote	present	you	a mother			now		tree rules
4	use	may · perfect · passive		Mr.		the real occasion			vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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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