Peter Pan, Chapter XIII. DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES?, sentence 52
Did no feeling of compassion disturb his sombre breast?
Who acts: feeling · What happens: do, disturb · To what, where: sombre 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 (feeling), 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 | Did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 3 feeling | det |
| 3 | feeling | feeling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 disturb | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 compassion | case |
| 5 | compassion | compassion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 feeling | nmod |
| 6 | disturb | disturb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Did | parataxis |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 breast | nmod:poss |
| 8 | sombre | sombre | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 breast | amod |
| 9 | breast | breast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 disturb | obj |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | disturb | present | no feeling of compassion | feeling's sombre breast | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus breast=Experiencer |
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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