Peter Pan, Chapter XIII. DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES?, sentence 70
His hand shook, but it was in exultation rather than in shame.
Who acts: hand · What happens: shake, be · To what, where: exultation
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 (hand), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 hand | nmod:poss |
| 2 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shook | nsubj |
| 3 | shook | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 exultation | punct |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 exultation | cc |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 exultation | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 exultation | cop |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 exultation | case |
| 9 | exultation | exultation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shook | obl |
| 10 | rather | rather | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 13 shame | cc |
| 11 | than | than | ADP | _ | 10 rather | fixed |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 shame | case |
| 13 | shame | shame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 exultation | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 shook | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shake | past | Hook's hand | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | is | past | hand | exultation rather shame | tree rules |
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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