Peter Pan, Chapter II. THE SHADOW, sentence 54

Mr. Darling would say, scorning himself; and indeed he had been like a tornado.

Who acts: Darling, Mr. · What happens: say, scorn, be · To what, where: Mr. · 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 (Darling, Mr.), 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	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Darling	nmod:desc
2	Darling	Darling	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 say	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 say	aux
4	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 scorning	punct
6	scorning	scorn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 say	advcl
7	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 scorning	obj
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 tornado	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 tornado	cc
10	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	16 tornado	advmod
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 tornado	nsubj
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 tornado	aux
13	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 tornado	cop
14	like	like	ADP	_	16 tornado	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 tornado	det
16	tornado	tornado	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 say	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	would	Darling Mr.			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	scorn	gerund	Darling Mr. not said here	Mr.		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme
3	is	past · perfect	Mr.		like a tornado; indeed property	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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