Peter Pan, Chapter XIII. DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES?, sentence 55
What stayed him was Peter’s impertinent appearance as he slept.
Who acts: impertinent appearance, man · What happens: stay, be, sleep · To what, where: man, impertinent appearance
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 (impertinent appearance, man), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg16:1732): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 stayed | nsubj |
| 2 | stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 appearance | csubj |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 stayed | obj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 appearance | cop |
| 5 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 appearance | nmod:poss |
| 6 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 5 Peter | case |
| 7 | impertinent | impertinent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 appearance | amod |
| 8 | appearance | appearance | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 slept | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 slept | nsubj |
| 11 | slept | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 appearance | advcl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 appearance | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | past | Peter's impertinent appearance | man | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme he=Location | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | Peter's impertinent appearance | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | sleep | past | man | vn snooze-40.4-1 «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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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