Peter Pan, Chapter XIII. DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES?, sentence 149

He had hoped to fly, keeping not far from the ground so that nothing unwonted should escape his eyes; but in that fitful light to have flown low would have meant trailing his shadow through the trees, thus disturbing birds and acquainting a watchful foe that he was astir.

Who acts: Peter, nothing · What happens: hope, fly, keep, escape, mean, trail · To what, where: eyes, fitful light, shadow, trees, watchful foe

This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XIII. DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES?. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Peter, nothing), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 hoped	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hoped	aux
3	hoped	hope	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 fly	mark
5	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 hoped	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 keeping	punct
7	keeping	keep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 fly	advcl
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 far	advmod
9	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 keeping	advmod
10	from	from	ADP	_	12 ground	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 ground	det
12	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 far	obl
13	so	so	SCONJ	_	18 escape	mark
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 escape	mark
15	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	18 escape	nsubj
16	unwonted	unwonted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 nothing	amod
17	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 escape	aux
18	escape	escape	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 keeping	advcl
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 eyes	nmod:poss
20	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 escape	obj
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 meant	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	33 meant	cc
23	in	in	ADP	_	26 light	case
24	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	26 light	det
25	fitful	fitful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 light	amod
26	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 meant	nsubj:pass
27	to	to	PART	_	29 flown	mark
28	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 flown	aux
29	flown	fly	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 light	acl
30	low	low	ADV	Degree=Pos	29 flown	advmod
31	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 meant	aux
32	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 meant	aux
33	meant	mean	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 hoped	conj
34	trailing	trail	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	33 meant	xcomp
35	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 shadow	nmod:poss
36	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 trailing	obj
37	through	through	ADP	_	39 trees	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 trees	det
39	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 trailing	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 birds	punct
41	thus	thus	ADV	_	43 birds	advmod
42	disturbing	disturbing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 birds	amod
43	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 trailing	obl
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 acquainting	cc
45	acquainting	acquaint	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	34 trailing	conj
46	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	48 foe	det
47	watchful	watchful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 foe	amod
48	foe	foe	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 acquainting	obj
49	that	that	SCONJ	_	52 astir	mark
50	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 astir	nsubj
51	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	52 astir	cop
52	astir	astir	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 acquainting	advcl
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 hoped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hope	past · perfect	Peter				vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	fly not said to happen	to-infinitive	Peter not said here				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	keep	gerund	Peter not said here			far property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	escape	should	nothing	Peter's eyes			vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme eye=Initial_Location
5	fly	to-infinitive · perfect		that fitful light not said here		low property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	mean	would · perfect · passive		that fitful light			tree rules
7	trail not said to happen	gerund		Peter's shadow	the trees	disturbing birds obl	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent shadow=Theme through tree=Trajectory
8	acquaint speech: other	gerund		a watchful foe			vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent foe=Recipient
9	is	past	Peter			astir property	tree rules
10	shadow		Peter				nom shadow «state transitive»: poss=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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