Peter Pan, Chapter IV. THE FLIGHT, sentence 83

In the old days at home the Neverland had always begun to look a little dark and threatening by bedtime.

Who acts: Neverland · What happens: begin, look, threaten

This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter IV. THE FLIGHT. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Neverland), 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	In	in	ADP	_	4 days	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 days	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 days	amod
4	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 begun	obl
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 home	case
6	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 days	nmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Neverland	det
8	Neverland	Neverland	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 begun	nsubj
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 begun	aux
10	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	11 begun	advmod
11	begun	begin	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
12	to	to	PART	_	13 look	mark
13	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 begun	xcomp
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 little	det
15	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 dark	obl:unmarked
16	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 look	xcomp
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 threatening	cc
18	threatening	threaten	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 dark	conj
19	by	by	ADP	_	20 bedtime	case
20	bedtime	bedtime	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 threatening	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 begun	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past · perfect	the Neverland	day	always property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	look	to-infinitive	the Neverland not said here		dark property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
3	threaten	gerund	the Neverland not said here		by bedtime	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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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