Peter Pan, Chapter X. THE HAPPY HOME, sentence 10

She was far too pretty to cringe in this way, but Peter thought it his due, and he would answer condescendingly, “It is good.

Who acts: Peter, Tiger, way · What happens: be, think, answer · To what, where: way · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter X. THE HAPPY HOME. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Peter, Tiger, way), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 cringe	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 cringe	cop
3	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 pretty	advmod
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 pretty	advmod
5	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	7 cringe	advmod
6	to	to	PART	_	7 cringe	mark
7	cringe	cringe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 way	case
9	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 way	det
10	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cringe	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 thought	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 thought	cc
13	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 thought	nsubj
14	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 cringe	parataxis
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 thought	obj
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 due	nmod:poss
17	due	due	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 thought	xcomp
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 answer	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 answer	cc
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 answer	nsubj
21	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 answer	aux
22	answer	answer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 thought	conj
23	condescendingly	condescendingly	ADV	_	22 answer	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 good	punct
25	“	"	PUNCT	_	28 good	punct
26	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 good	nsubj
27	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 good	cop
28	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 answer	parataxis
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 cringe	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	Peter		this way	cringe, pretty property	tree rules
2	think speech: other	past	Peter	way		due property	vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme
3	answer speech: assert	would	Tiger			condescendingly property	tree rules
4	is in a quote	present	way			good 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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