--- title: As they were poor, owing to the amount of milk the children drank, t… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics description: As they were poor, owing to the amount of milk the children drank, this nurse was a prim Newfoundland dog, called Nana, who had belonged to no one in particular until the Darlings engaged her. Who acts: neighbours, children, nurse, Nana. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter I. PETER BR --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/2/33/) [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/) / 33 # Peter Pan, Chapter I. PETER BREAKS THROUGH, sentence 33 As they were poor, owing to the amount of milk the children drank, this nurse was a prim Newfoundland dog, called Nana, who had belonged to no one in particular until the Darlings engaged her. **Who acts:** neighbours, children, nurse, Nana, Darlings · **What happens:** be, owe, drink, call, belong, engage · **To what, where:** amount, prim Newfoundland dog, one, particular, Nana, milk · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (neighbours, children, nurse, Nana), 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:pg16:2:33 # text = As they were poor, owing to the amount of milk the children drank, this nurse was a prim Newfoundland dog, called Nana, who had belonged to no one in particular until the Darlings engaged her. 1 As as SCONJ IN _ 4 mark _ _ 2 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 poor poor ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 6 owing owe VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 advcl _ _ 7 to to ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 amount amount NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 milk milk NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nsubj _ _ 14 drank drink VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 16 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 17 det _ _ 17 nurse nurse NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 18 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 20 prim prim ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 21 Newfoundland Newfoundland PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 22 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 22 acl _ _ 25 Nana Nana PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 29 nsubj _ _ 28 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 29 belonged belong VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 25 acl _ _ 30 to to ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 32 det _ _ 32 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 33 in in ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 particular particular ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 obl _ _ 35 until until SCONJ IN _ 38 mark _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 Darlings darling NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 nsubj _ _ 38 engaged engage VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 advcl _ _ 39 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 22 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | neighbours *= neighbour* | | | | | poor *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **owe** | gerund | neighbours *= neighbour* *not said here* | | | | | to the amount of milk *goal* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent to amount=Goal | | 3 | **drink** | past | the children | the amount of milk *not said here* | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent amount=Patient | | 4 | **is a** | past | this nurse | a prim Newfoundland dog | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **call** | participle | | a prim Newfoundland dog *not said here* | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **belong** | past · perfect | Nana | | no one | particular | | | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **engage** | past | the Darlings | Nana | | | | | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient | | 8 | **amount** | | | milk | | | | | nom amount «possession 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. - ← previous: [sentence 32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/2/32/) - next →: [sentence 34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/2/34/) - ↑ back to [Chapter I. PETER BREAKS THROUGH](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/2/)