Peter Pan, Chapter XIII. DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES?, sentence 150

He regretted now that he had given the birds of the island such strange names that they are very wild and difficult of approach.

Who acts: Peter, birds · What happens: regret, give, be · To what, where: Peter, island such strange names

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, birds), 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	2 regretted	nsubj
2	regretted	regret	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 regretted	advmod
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 given	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 given	nsubj:pass
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 given	aux
7	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 regretted	advcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 birds	det
9	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 given	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	15 names	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 names	det
12	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 names	compound
13	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 names	amod
14	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 names	amod
15	names	name	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 birds	nmod
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 wild	mark
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 wild	nsubj
18	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 wild	cop
19	very	very	ADV	_	20 wild	advmod
20	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 names	acl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 difficult	cc
22	difficult	difficult	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 wild	conj
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 approach	case
24	approach	approach	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 difficult	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 regretted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	regret	past	Peter		now		vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer
2	give	past · perfect · passive		Peter			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient bird=Theme
3	is	present	birds = bird	the island such strange names not said here		wild property	tree rules
4	be		birds = bird not said here			of approach	tree rules

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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