Peter Pan, Chapter XIII. DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES?, sentence 43

Then he nearly cried; but it struck him how indignant she would be if he laughed instead; so he laughed a haughty laugh and fell asleep in the middle of it.

Who acts: Peter, bed · What happens: cry, strike, be, laugh, fall · To what, where: Peter, haughty laugh, middle

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, bed), 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	4 cried	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 cried	nsubj
3	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	4 cried	advmod
4	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 struck	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 struck	cc
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 struck	nsubj
8	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 cried	conj
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 struck	obj
10	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	11 indignant	advmod
11	indignant	indignant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 struck	xcomp
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 would	nsubj
13	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 indignant	advcl
14	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 would	xcomp
15	if	if	SCONJ	_	17 laughed	mark
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 laughed	nsubj
17	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 be	advcl
18	instead	instead	ADV	_	17 laughed	advmod
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 laughed	punct
20	so	so	ADV	_	22 laughed	advmod
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 laughed	nsubj
22	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 cried	conj
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 laugh	det
24	haughty	haughty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 laugh	amod
25	laugh	laugh	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 laughed	obj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 fell	cc
27	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 laughed	conj
28	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 fell	xcomp
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 middle	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 middle	det
31	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 fell	obl
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 it	case
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 middle	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	Peter			then	nearly property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	strike	past	bed	Peter			indignant property	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent he=Instrument
3	be	infinitive	bed not said here					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	laugh a condition, not said to happen	past	Peter				instead property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	laugh	past	Peter	a haughty laugh				vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent laugh=Theme
6	fall	past	Peter not said here		the middle of bed		asleep property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in middle=Location

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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