Peter Pan, Chapter XIII. DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES?, sentence 72

Then one long gloating look he cast upon his victim, and turning, wormed his way with difficulty up the tree.

Who acts: one long gloating look · What happens: gloat, cast, turn, worm · To what, where: victim, way

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 (one long gloating look), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 cast	advmod
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 look	nummod
3	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 look	amod
4	gloating	gloat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 look	amod
5	look	look	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cast	nsubj
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 cast	nsubj
7	cast	cast	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	upon	upon	ADP	_	10 victim	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 victim	nmod:poss
10	victim	victim	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cast	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 wormed	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 wormed	cc
13	turning	turn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 wormed	advcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 turning	punct
15	wormed	worm	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 cast	conj
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 way	nmod:poss
17	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 wormed	obj
18	with	with	ADP	_	19 difficulty	case
19	difficulty	difficulty	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 wormed	obl
20	up	up	ADP	_	22 tree	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 tree	det
22	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 wormed	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 cast	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gloat	gerund						vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	cast	past	one long gloating look		look's victim	then		vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent upon victim=Destination
3	turn	gerund						vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
4	worm	past	one long gloating look not said here	look's way			with difficulty; up the tree	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=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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