Peter Pan, Chapter VI. THE LITTLE HOUSE, sentence 18

Tootles’ face was very white, but there was a dignity about him now that had never been there before.

Who acts: face, that · What happens: be, not be

This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter VI. THE LITTLE HOUSE. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (face, that), 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	Tootles	tootle	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 face	nmod:poss
2	’	's	PART	_	1 Tootles	case
3	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 white	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 white	cop
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 white	advmod
6	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 was	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 was	cc
9	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	10 was	expl
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 there	cop
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 dignity	det
12	dignity	dignity	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 was	nsubj
13	about	about	ADP	_	14 him	case
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 dignity	nmod
15	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 there	advmod
16	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 there	nsubj
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 there	aux
18	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	20 there	advmod
19	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 there	cop
20	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 white	conj
21	before	before	ADV	_	20 there	advmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 white	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Tootles's face					white property	tree rules
2	not is	past · perfect	that				now	before, there property	tree rules

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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