Peter Pan, Chapter II. THE SHADOW, sentence 72

Some men would have resented her being able to do it so easily, but Mr. Darling had far too fine a nature for that; he thanked her carelessly, at once forgot his rage, and in another moment was dancing round the room with Michael on his back.

Who acts: men, fate, Darling, nature · What happens: resent, be, do, thank, forget, dance · To what, where: tie, fate, rage, back

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 (men, fate, Darling, nature), 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 men	det
2	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 resented	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 resented	aux
4	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 resented	aux
5	resented	resent	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 able	nsubj
7	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 able	cop
8	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 resented	ccomp
9	to	to	PART	_	10 do	mark
10	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 able	xcomp
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 do	obj
12	so	so	ADV	_	13 easily	advmod
13	easily	easily	ADV	_	10 do	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 fine	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 fine	cc
16	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Darling	nmod:desc
17	Darling	Darling	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 fine	nsubj
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 fine	aux
19	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	21 fine	advmod
20	too	too	ADV	_	21 fine	advmod
21	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 able	conj
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 nature	det
23	nature	nature	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 fine	nsubj
24	for	for	ADP	_	25 that	case
25	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 fine	obl
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 thanked	punct
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 thanked	nsubj
28	thanked	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 fine	parataxis
29	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 thanked	obj
30	carelessly	carelessly	ADV	_	28 thanked	advmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 forgot	punct
32	at	at	SCONJ	_	34 forgot	mark
33	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	34 forgot	advmod
34	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 thanked	conj
35	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 rage	nmod:poss
36	rage	rage	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 forgot	obj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 dancing	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 dancing	cc
39	in	in	ADP	_	41 moment	case
40	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	41 moment	det
41	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 dancing	obl
42	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 dancing	aux
43	dancing	dance	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	34 forgot	parataxis
44	round	round	ADP	_	46 room	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 room	det
46	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 dancing	obl
47	with	with	ADP	_	48 Michael	case
48	Michael	Michael	PROPN	Number=Sing	43 dancing	obl
49	on	on	ADP	_	51 back	case
50	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	51 back	nmod:poss
51	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 dancing	obl
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 resented	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	resent	would · perfect	some men						vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	gerund	fate					able property	tree rules
3	do	to-infinitive	fate not said here	tie				easily property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
4	be	past	Darling Mr.					for that; far property	tree rules
5	thank speech: thank	past	nature		fate			carelessly property	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
6	forget	past	nature not said here	nature's rage				once property	tree rules
7	dance	past · progressive				nature's back	moment	round the room; with Michael	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on back=Location
8	rage		nature						nom rage «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent

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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