Peter Pan, Chapter XI. WENDY’S STORY, sentence 99

But of course he cared very much; and he was so full of wrath against grown-ups, who, as usual, were spoiling everything, that as soon as he got inside his tree he breathed intentionally quick short breaths at the rate of about five to a second.

Who acts: dread · What happens: care, be, grow, spoil, get, breathe · To what, where: everything, tree, quick short breaths, rate

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 (dread), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 cared	cc
2	of	of	ADP	ExtPos=ADV	5 cared	advmod
3	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 of	fixed
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 cared	nsubj
5	cared	care	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 much	advmod
7	much	much	ADV	_	5 cared	advmod
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 full	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 full	cc
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 full	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 full	cop
12	so	so	ADV	_	13 full	advmod
13	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 cared	conj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 wrath	case
15	wrath	wrath	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 full	obl
16	against	against	ADP	_	19 ups	case
17	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 ups	amod
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 grown	punct
19	ups	up	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 full	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 usual	punct
21	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 usual	nsubj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 usual	punct
23	as	as	ADP	_	24 usual	case
24	usual	usual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 ups	acl:relcl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 spoiling	punct
26	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 spoiling	aux
27	spoiling	spoil	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 cared	advcl
28	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	27 spoiling	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 that	punct
30	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	27 spoiling	obl
31	as	as	ADV	_	32 soon	advmod
32	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	30 that	advmod
33	as	as	SCONJ	_	35 got	mark
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 got	nsubj
35	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 soon	advcl
36	inside	inside	ADP	_	38 tree	case
37	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 tree	nmod:poss
38	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 got	obl
39	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 breathed	nsubj
40	breathed	breathe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 tree	acl:relcl
41	intentionally	intentionally	ADV	_	42 quick	advmod
42	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 breaths	amod
43	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 breaths	amod
44	breaths	breath	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 breathed	obj
45	at	at	ADP	_	47 rate	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 rate	det
47	rate	rate	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 breathed	obl
48	of	of	ADP	_	50 five	case
49	about	about	ADV	_	50 five	advmod
50	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	47 rate	nmod
51	to	to	ADP	_	53 second	case
52	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	53 second	det
53	second	second	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 breathed	obl
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 cared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	care	past	dread					vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	past	dread				of wrath; against grown ups; full property	tree rules
3	grow	participle						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	spoil	past · progressive	dread not said here	everything			that obl	tree rules
5	get	past	dread		dread's tree			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
6	breathe	past	dread	quick short breaths	the rate of five	second		vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breath=Theme

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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