Peter Pan, Chapter XIII. DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES?, sentence 27
It dried up any trickle of pity for him that may have remained in the pirate’s infuriated breast.
Who acts: house, pity · What happens: dry up, remain, infuriate, trickle · To what, where: trickle, that, infuriated breast
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 (house, pity), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 dried | nsubj |
| 2 | dried | dry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 dried | compound:prt |
| 4 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 trickle | det |
| 5 | trickle | trickle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 dried | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 pity | case |
| 7 | pity | pity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 trickle | nmod |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 him | case |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 dried | obl |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 remained | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 remained | aux |
| 12 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 remained | aux |
| 13 | remained | remain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 dried | parataxis |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 breast | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 pirate | det |
| 16 | pirate | pirate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 breast | nmod:poss |
| 17 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 16 pirate | case |
| 18 | infuriated | infuriate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 breast | amod |
| 19 | breast | breast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 remained | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 dried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dry up | past | house | any trickle of pity | for Hook | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient trickle=Result | |||
| 2 | remain | may · perfect · passive | that | the pirate's infuriated breast | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | infuriate | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 4 | trickle | pity | nom trickle «event intransitive»: of=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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