Peter Pan, Chapter XIII. DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES?, sentence 17

Poor Slightly, most wretched of all the children now, for he was in a panic about Peter, bitterly regretted what he had done.

Who acts: man · What happens: be, regret, do

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 (man), 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	Poor	poor	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Slightly	slightly	ADV	_	1 Poor	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 wretched	punct
4	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	5 wretched	advmod
5	wretched	wretched	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Poor	appos
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 children	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 children	det:predet
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 children	det
9	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 wretched	obl
10	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 wretched	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 panic	punct
12	for	for	ADP	_	17 panic	case
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 panic	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 panic	cop
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 panic	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 panic	det
17	panic	panic	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wretched	conj
18	about	about	ADP	_	19 Peter	case
19	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 panic	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 regretted	punct
21	bitterly	bitterly	ADV	_	22 regretted	advmod
22	regretted	regret	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 panic	conj
23	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	26 done	obj
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 done	nsubj
25	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 done	aux
26	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 regretted	xcomp
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Poor	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	past	man	for a panic; about Peter	tree rules
2	regret	participle	man not said here	bitterly property	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	do	past · perfect	man		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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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