Peter Pan, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!, sentence 312
Mr. Darling would have rushed upstairs, but Mrs. Darling signed him to go softly.
Who acts: Mrs. Darling · What happens: rush, sign, go · To what, where: Mr. Darling, dog
This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!. 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), 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 | compound |
| 2 | Darling | darling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rushed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 rushed | aux |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 rushed | aux |
| 5 | rushed | rush | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | upstairs | upstairs | ADV | _ | 5 rushed | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 signed | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 signed | cc |
| 9 | Mrs. | Mrs. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Darling | compound |
| 10 | Darling | Darling | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 signed | nsubj |
| 11 | signed | sign | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 rushed | conj |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 signed | obj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 go | mark |
| 14 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 signed | xcomp |
| 15 | softly | softly | ADV | _ | 14 go | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 rushed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rush | would · perfect · passive | Mr. Darling | upstairs property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | sign | past | Mrs. Darling | dog | vn instr_communication-37.4.1 «NP V NP.recipient when S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | go | to-infinitive | Mrs. Darling not said here | softly property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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