Peter Pan, Chapter XIII. DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES?, sentence 79
Soft and cautious, but in that stillness it was sinister.
Who acts: tenement · What happens: be · To what, where: sinister, stillness
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 (tenement), 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 | Soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 cautious | cc |
| 3 | cautious | cautious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Soft | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 sinister | punct |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 sinister | cc |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 stillness | case |
| 7 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 stillness | det |
| 8 | stillness | stillness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sinister | obl |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 sinister | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 sinister | cop |
| 11 | sinister | sinister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Soft | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Soft | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | tenement | sinister | that stillness | 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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