Peter Pan, Chapter XIV. THE PIRATE SHIP, sentence 115

“Are they to die?” asked Wendy, with a look of such frightful contempt that he nearly fainted.

Who acts: gentlemen, Wendy · What happens: be, ask, faint · To what, where: Wendy, such frightful contempt · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XIV. THE PIRATE SHIP. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gentlemen, Wendy), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	5 die	punct
2	Are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 die	cop
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 die	nsubj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 die	mark
5	die	die	VERB	Mood=Sub Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 asked	ccomp
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 die	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 die	punct
8	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	Wendy	Wendy	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 asked	iobj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 look	punct
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 look	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 look	det
13	look	look	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 asked	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	17 contempt	case
15	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 contempt	amod
16	frightful	frightful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 contempt	amod
17	contempt	contempt	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 look	nmod
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 fainted	mark
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 fainted	nsubj
20	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	21 fainted	advmod
21	fainted	faint	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 contempt	acl:relcl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is not said to happen, in a quote	present	gentlemen = gentleman			die property	tree rules
2	ask speech: ask	past			Wendy	with a look of such frightful contempt	vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent wendy=Recipient clause=Topic
3	faint	past	Wendy	such frightful contempt not said here		nearly 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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