Peter Pan, Chapter XIII. DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES?, sentence 29

Then for long he remained brooding; his hat of ill omen on the sward, so that any gentle breeze which had arisen might play refreshingly through his hair.

Who acts: thing, gentle breeze · What happens: remain, brood, arise, play · To what, where: hat, gentle breeze, hair

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 (thing, gentle breeze), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 remained	advmod
2	for	for	ADP	_	3 long	case
3	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 remained	obl
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 remained	nsubj
5	remained	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	brooding	brood	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 remained	xcomp
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 hat	punct
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 hat	nmod:poss
9	hat	hat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 remained	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 omen	case
11	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 omen	amod
12	omen	omen	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hat	nmod
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 sward	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 sward	det
15	sward	sward	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 omen	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 play	punct
17	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	26 play	mark
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 so	fixed
19	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	21 breeze	det
20	gentle	gentle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 breeze	amod
21	breeze	breeze	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 play	nsubj
22	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 arisen	nsubj:pass
23	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 arisen	aux
24	arisen	arise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 breeze	acl:relcl
25	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 play	aux
26	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 remained	advcl
27	refreshingly	refreshingly	ADV	_	26 play	advmod
28	through	through	ADP	_	30 hair	case
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 hair	nmod:poss
30	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 play	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 remained	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	remain	past	thing	thing's hat of ill omen on the sward		then		tree rules
2	brood	gerund	thing not said here					vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	arise	past · perfect · passive		any gentle breeze				vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
4	play	might	any gentle breeze		thing's hair		refreshingly property	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=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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