Peter Pan, Chapter XI. WENDY’S STORY, sentence 172

The awful cynicism of this made an uncomfortable impression, and most of them began to look rather doubtful.

Who acts: awful cynicism · What happens: make, begin, look

This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XI. WENDY’S STORY. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (awful cynicism), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cynicism	det
2	awful	awful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 cynicism	amod
3	cynicism	cynicism	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 began	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	9 impression	case
5	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 impression	nsubj
6	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 impression	amod
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 impression	det
8	uncomfortable	uncomfortable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 impression	amod
9	impression	impression	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cynicism	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 began	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 began	cc
12	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	15 began	nsubj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 them	case
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 most	nmod
15	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	to	to	PART	_	17 look	mark
17	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 began	xcomp
18	rather	rather	ADV	_	19 doubtful	advmod
19	doubtful	doubtful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 look	xcomp
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	make	participle			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
2	begin	past	the awful cynicism of a made uncomfortable impression		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	look	to-infinitive	the awful cynicism of a made uncomfortable impression not said here	doubtful property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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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