Peter Pan, Chapter XI. WENDY’S STORY, sentence 77
She felt him solicitously, lower down than his chest.
Who acts: Peter · What happens: feel, lower down · To what, where: window
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 (Peter), 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 | 2 felt | nsubj |
| 2 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 felt | obj |
| 4 | solicitously | solicitously | ADV | _ | 2 felt | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 lower | punct |
| 6 | lower | lower | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 felt | conj |
| 7 | down | down | ADP | _ | 6 lower | compound:prt |
| 8 | than | than | ADP | _ | 10 chest | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 chest | nmod:poss |
| 10 | chest | chest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lower | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | Peter | window | solicitously property | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 2 | lower down | infinitive | Peter not said here | than window's chest | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=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.
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