Peter Pan, Chapter II. THE SHADOW, sentence 96
Mrs. Darling left the room to get a chocolate for him, and Mr. Darling thought this showed want of firmness.
Who acts: Mrs., Darling, this · What happens: leave, get, think, show, want · To what, where: room, chocolate, want, firmness · 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 (Mrs., Darling, this), 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 | Mrs. | Mrs. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 left | nsubj |
| 2 | Darling | Darling | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Mrs. | flat |
| 3 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 room | det |
| 5 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 left | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 get | mark |
| 7 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 left | advcl |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 chocolate | det |
| 9 | chocolate | chocolate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 get | obj |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 him | case |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 get | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 thought | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 thought | cc |
| 14 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Darling | nmod:desc |
| 15 | Darling | Darling | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 thought | nsubj |
| 16 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 left | parataxis |
| 17 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 showed | nsubj |
| 18 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 thought | ccomp |
| 19 | want | want | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 showed | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 firmness | case |
| 21 | firmness | firmness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 want | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past | Mrs. | the room | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=Theme | ||||
| 2 | get | to-infinitive | Mrs. not said here | a chocolate | for Michael | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent chocolate=Theme for he=Beneficiary | |||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | Darling Mr. | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | show | past | this | want of firmness | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent want=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | want | firmness | nom want «state transitive»: of=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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