Peter Pan, Chapter XIII. DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES?, sentence 61
Feeling for the catch, he found to his fury that it was low down, beyond his reach.
Who acts: Hook, obstacle · What happens: feel, find, be, infuriate
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 (Hook, obstacle), 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 | Feeling | feel | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 found | advcl |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 4 catch | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 catch | det |
| 4 | catch | catch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Feeling | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Feeling | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 found | nsubj |
| 7 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 fury | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 fury | nmod:poss |
| 10 | fury | fury | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 found | obl |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 down | mark |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 down | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 down | cop |
| 14 | low | low | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 down | advmod |
| 15 | down | down | ADV | _ | 7 found | xcomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 down | punct |
| 17 | beyond | beyond | ADP | _ | 19 reach | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 reach | nmod:poss |
| 19 | reach | reach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 down | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | gerund | Hook not said here | for the catch | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for catch=Theme | ||||
| 2 | find | past | Hook | to Hook's fury | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is | past | obstacle | beyond Hook's reach; down, low property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | infuriate | Hook | nom fury «feeling transitive»: poss=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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