Peter Pan, Chapter II. THE SHADOW, sentence 82

Of course Mrs. Darling brushed him, but he began to talk again about its being a mistake to have a dog for a nurse.

Who acts: Darling, most · What happens: brush, begin, talk, be, have · To what, where: most, dog

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, most), 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	Of	of	ADP	_	3 Mrs.	case
2	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Of	fixed
3	Mrs.	Mrs.	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 brushed	obl
4	Darling	Darling	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 brushed	nsubj
5	brushed	brush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 brushed	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 began	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 began	cc
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 began	nsubj
10	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 brushed	conj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 talk	mark
12	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 began	xcomp
13	again	again	ADV	_	12 talk	advmod
14	about	about	ADP	_	18 mistake	case
15	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 mistake	nmod:poss
16	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 mistake	cop
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 mistake	det
18	mistake	mistake	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 talk	obl
19	to	to	PART	_	20 have	mark
20	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 talk	advcl
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 dog	det
22	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 have	obj
23	for	for	ADP	_	25 nurse	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 nurse	det
25	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 have	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 brushed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	brush	past	Darling	most		of Mrs.	vn wipe_instr-10.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent he=Theme of mrs.=Initial_Location
2	begin	past	most				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	talk	to-infinitive	most not said here		again		vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	gerund				about course's mistake	tree rules
5	have	to-infinitive	most not said here	a dog		for a nurse	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=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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