Peter Pan, Chapter X. THE HAPPY HOME, sentence 145

Even Slightly tried to tell a story that night, but the beginning was so fearfully dull that it appalled not only the others but himself, and he said gloomily:

Who acts: beginning, Wendy · What happens: try, tell, be, appal, say · To what, where: story, others · 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 (beginning, 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Even	even	ADV	_	3 tried	advmod
2	Slightly	slightly	ADV	_	3 tried	advmod
3	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 tell	mark
5	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 tried	xcomp
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 story	det
7	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tell	obj
8	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 night	det
9	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tell	obl:unmarked
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 dull	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 dull	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 beginning	det
13	beginning	beginning	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 dull	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 dull	cop
15	so	so	ADV	_	17 dull	advmod
16	fearfully	fearfully	ADV	_	17 dull	advmod
17	dull	dull	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 tried	parataxis
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 appalled	mark
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 appalled	nsubj
20	appalled	appal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 dull	advcl
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 others	advmod
22	only	only	ADV	_	24 others	advmod
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 others	det
24	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 appalled	obj
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 himself	cc
26	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	20 appalled	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 said	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 said	cc
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 said	nsubj
30	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 tried	conj
31	gloomily	gloomily	ADV	_	30 said	advmod
32	:	:	PUNCT	_	3 tried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	try	past				slightly property	vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	tell speech: assert not said to happen	to-infinitive		a story	night		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient
3	is	past	the beginning			dull, fearfully property	tree rules
4	appal	past	beginning	the others			tree rules
5	say speech: assert	past	Wendy			gloomily property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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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