Peter Pan, Chapter XVI. THE RETURN HOME, sentence 104

Instead of feeling that he was behaving badly he danced with glee; then he peeped into the day-nursery to see who was playing.

Who acts: Wendy · What happens: feel, behave, dance, peep, see, play · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XVI. THE RETURN HOME. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	Instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=SCONJ	3 feeling	mark
2	of	of	ADP	_	1 Instead	fixed
3	feeling	feel	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 danced	advcl
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 behaving	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 behaving	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 behaving	aux
7	behaving	behave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 feeling	advcl
8	badly	badly	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 danced	advmod
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 danced	nsubj
10	danced	dance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	with	with	ADP	_	12 glee	case
12	glee	glee	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 danced	obl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 peeped	punct
14	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 peeped	advmod
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 peeped	nsubj
16	peeped	peep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 danced	conj
17	into	into	ADP	_	21 nursery	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 nursery	det
19	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 nursery	compound
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 day	punct
21	nursery	nursery	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 peeped	obl
22	to	to	PART	_	23 see	mark
23	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 peeped	advcl
24	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 playing	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 playing	aux
26	playing	play	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 see	ccomp
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 danced	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	feel	gerund	Wendy not said here			vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	behave	past · progressive	Wendy			vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent
3	dance	past	Wendy		with glee; badly property	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	peep	past	Wendy	then	into the day nursery	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into nursery=Theme
5	see	to-infinitive	Wendy not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	play	past · progressive				vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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