Peter Pan, Chapter XIII. DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES?, sentence 71

As he did it he avoided glancing at the sleeper, but not lest pity should unnerve him; merely to avoid spilling.

Who acts: Hook, pity · What happens: do, avoid, glance, unnerve, spill · To what, where: hand, Hook

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, pity), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	3 did	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 avoided	advcl
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 did	obj
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 avoided	nsubj
6	avoided	avoid	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	glancing	glance	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 avoided	xcomp
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 sleeper	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 sleeper	det
10	sleeper	sleeper	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 glancing	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 unnerve	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 unnerve	cc
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 pity	advmod
14	lest	lest	SCONJ	_	15 pity	case
15	pity	pity	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 unnerve	nsubj
16	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 unnerve	aux
17	unnerve	unnerve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 avoided	parataxis
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 unnerve	obj
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 avoid	punct
20	merely	merely	ADV	_	22 avoid	advmod
21	to	to	PART	_	22 avoid	mark
22	avoid	avoid	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 unnerve	conj
23	spilling	spill	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 avoid	xcomp
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 avoided	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	past	Hook	hand		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
2	avoid	past	Hook			vn avoid-52 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	glance	gerund	Hook not said here		at the sleeper	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at sleeper=Theme
4	unnerve	should	pity	Hook		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer
5	avoid	to-infinitive	pity not said here		merely property	vn avoid-52 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
6	spill	gerund	pity not said here			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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