Peter Pan, Chapter XIII. DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES?, sentence 62

To his disordered brain it seemed then that the irritating quality in Peter’s face and figure visibly increased, and he rattled the door and flung himself against it.

Who acts: it, Hook · What happens: disorder, seem, figure, increase, rattle, fling · To what, where: irritating quality, door, Hook, obstacle

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 (it, Hook), 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	To	to	ADP	_	4 brain	case
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 brain	nmod:poss
3	disordered	disorder	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 brain	amod
4	brain	brain	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 seemed	obl
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 seemed	nsubj
6	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 seemed	advmod
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 quality	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 quality	det
10	irritating	irritating	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 quality	amod
11	quality	quality	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 seemed	xcomp
12	in	in	ADP	_	15 face	case
13	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 face	nmod:poss
14	’s	's	PART	_	13 Peter	case
15	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 quality	nmod
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 figure	cc
17	figure	figure	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 face	conj
18	visibly	visibly	ADV	_	19 increased	advmod
19	increased	increase	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 figure	ccomp
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 rattled	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 rattled	cc
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 rattled	nsubj
23	rattled	rattle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 seemed	parataxis
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 door	det
25	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 rattled	obj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 flung	cc
27	flung	fling	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 rattled	conj
28	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	27 flung	obj
29	against	against	ADP	_	30 it	case
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 flung	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	disorder	participle						tree rules
2	seem	past	it	the irritating quality in Peter's face		then	to Hook's disordered brain	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
3	figure	infinitive						tree rules
4	increase	participle					visibly property	vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
5	rattle	past	Hook	the door				vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent door=Theme
6	fling	past	Hook not said here	Hook	obstacle			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent himself=Theme against it=Destination

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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