Peter Pan, Chapter XIII. DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES?, sentence 7
He did it with such an air, he was so frightfully _distingué_, that she was too fascinated to cry out.
Who acts: Hook · What happens: do, be, fascinate, cry out · To what, where: hat, Wendy
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), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 did | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 did | obj |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 air | case |
| 5 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 air | det:predet |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 air | det |
| 7 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 did | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 frightfully | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 frightfully | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 frightfully | cop |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 frightfully | advmod |
| 12 | frightfully | frightfully | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 did | parataxis |
| 13 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 14 distingué | punct |
| 14 | distingué | distingué | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 frightfully | conj |
| 15 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 12 frightfully | punct |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 fascinated | punct |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 fascinated | mark |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 fascinated | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 fascinated | aux:pass |
| 20 | too | too | ADV | _ | 21 fascinated | advmod |
| 21 | fascinated | fascinate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 frightfully | conj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 cry | mark |
| 23 | cry | cry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 fascinated | advcl |
| 24 | out | out | ADP | _ | 23 cry | compound:prt |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | Hook | hat | with such air | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | is | past | Hook | frightfully property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | fascinate | past · passive | Wendy | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | cry out speech: express | to-infinitive | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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