Peter Pan, Chapter II. THE SHADOW, sentence 88

At first he pooh-poohed the story, but he became thoughtful when she showed him the shadow.

Who acts: Mr., wife · What happens: pooh, become, show · To what, where: story, shadow, Mr.

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 (Mr., wife), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 first	case
2	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 poohed	obl
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 poohed	nsubj
4	pooh	pooh	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 poohed	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 pooh	punct
6	poohed	pooh	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 story	det
8	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 poohed	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 became	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 became	cc
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 became	nsubj
12	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 poohed	conj
13	thoughtful	thoughtful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 became	xcomp
14	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	16 showed	advmod
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 showed	nsubj
16	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 became	advcl
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 showed	iobj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 shadow	det
19	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 showed	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 poohed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	pooh	participle	Mr.	the story			tree rules
2	become	past	Mr.			thoughtful property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	show	past	wife	the shadow	Mr.		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient shadow=Topic

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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