Peter Pan, Chapter XIII. DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES?, sentence 86
He was thrilled, and he loved being thrilled.
Who acts: pity · What happens: be, love
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 (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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 thrilled | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thrilled | cop |
| 3 | thrilled | thrilled | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 loved | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 loved | cc |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 loved | nsubj |
| 7 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thrilled | conj |
| 8 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 thrilled | cop |
| 9 | thrilled | thrilled | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 loved | xcomp |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 thrilled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | pity | thrilled property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | love | past | pity | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is not said to happen | gerund | pity not said here | thrilled property | 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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