Peter Pan, Chapter XIII. DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES?, sentence 25

I don’t know whether any of the children were crying; if so, the singing drowned the sound; but as the little house disappeared in the forest, a brave though tiny jet of smoke issued from its chimney as if defying Hook.

Who acts: I, any, singing, little house · What happens: not know, cry, drown, disappear, issue, defy · To what, where: sound, forest, smoke, chimney, Hook · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (I, any, singing, little house), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 know	nsubj
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 know	aux
3	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 know	advmod
4	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	11 crying	mark
6	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	11 crying	nsubj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 children	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 children	det
9	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 any	nmod
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 crying	aux
11	crying	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 know	ccomp
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 drowned	punct
13	if	if	SCONJ	_	14 so	mark
14	so	so	ADV	_	18 drowned	advcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 drowned	punct
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 singing	det
17	singing	singing	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 drowned	nsubj
18	drowned	drown	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 know	parataxis
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 sound	det
20	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 drowned	obj
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 disappeared	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 disappeared	cc
23	as	as	SCONJ	_	27 disappeared	mark
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 house	det
25	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 house	amod
26	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 disappeared	nsubj
27	disappeared	disappear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 know	parataxis
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 forest	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 forest	det
30	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 disappeared	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 brave	punct
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 brave	det
33	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 forest	amod
34	though	though	ADP	_	36 jet	case
35	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 jet	amod
36	jet	jet	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 brave	obl
37	of	of	ADP	_	38 smoke	case
38	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 jet	nmod
39	issued	issue	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	38 smoke	acl
40	from	from	ADP	_	42 chimney	case
41	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 chimney	nmod:poss
42	chimney	chimney	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 issued	obl
43	as	as	SCONJ	_	45 defying	mark
44	if	if	SCONJ	_	45 defying	mark
45	defying	defy	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 disappeared	advcl
46	Hook	hook	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 defying	obj
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	not know	present · do-support	I			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	cry speech: express	past · progressive	any			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	drown	past	the singing	the sound		vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sound=Patient
4	disappear	past	the little house		the forest	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	issue	participle		smoke not said here	house's chimney	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	defy	gerund	the little house not said here	Hook		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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