--- title: Mr. Darling was frightfully proud of her, but he was very honourable… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics description: Mr. Darling was frightfully proud of her, but he was very honourable, and he sat on the edge of Mrs. Darling’s bed, holding her hand and calculating expenses, while she looked at him imploringly. Who acts: Darling, Wendy. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter I. PETER BREAKS THROUGH, wi --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/2/23/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Peter Pan](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/) / [Chapter I. PETER BREAKS THROUGH](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/2/) / 23 # Peter Pan, Chapter I. PETER BREAKS THROUGH, sentence 23 Mr. Darling was frightfully proud of her, but he was very honourable, and he sat on the edge of Mrs. Darling’s bed, holding her hand and calculating expenses, while she looked at him imploringly. **Who acts:** Darling, Wendy · **What happens:** be, sit, hold, calculate, look · **To what, where:** edge, hand, expenses This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter I. PETER BREAKS THROUGH. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Darling, Wendy), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg16:2:23 # text = Mr. Darling was frightfully proud of her, but he was very honourable, and he sat on the edge of Mrs. Darling’s bed, holding her hand and calculating expenses, while she looked at him imploringly. 1 Mr. Mr. PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod:desc _ _ 2 Darling Darling PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 frightfully frightfully ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 proud proud ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 9 but but CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 10 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 11 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 12 very very ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 honourable honourable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 16 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 sat sit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 18 on on ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 edge edge NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 22 Mrs. Mrs. PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 23 Darling Darling PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 24 ’s 's PART POS _ 23 case _ _ 25 bed bed NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 27 holding hold VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 17 advcl _ _ 28 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 calculating calculate VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 27 conj _ _ 32 expenses expense NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 34 while while SCONJ IN _ 36 mark _ _ 35 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 36 looked look VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 37 at at ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 obl _ _ 39 imploringly imploringly ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | Darling Mr. | | | | | of Wendy; frightfully, proud *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **is** | past | Darling | | | | | honourable *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **sit** | past | Darling | | | the edge of Mrs. Darling's bed | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on edge=Location | | 4 | **hold** | gerund | Darling *not said here* | Wendy's hand | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme | | 5 | **calculate** | gerund | Darling *not said here* | expenses | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **look** | past | Wendy | | | | | at Darling; imploringly *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=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. - ← previous: [sentence 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/2/22/) - next →: [sentence 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/2/24/) - ↑ back to [Chapter I. PETER BREAKS THROUGH](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/2/)