Peter Pan, Chapter XVI. THE RETURN HOME, sentence 14

The general feeling was that Peter was honest just now to lull Wendy’s suspicions, but that there might be a change when the new suit was ready, which, against her will, she was making for him out of some of Hook’s wickedest garments.

Who acts: general feeling, new suit, Wendy · What happens: be, lull, make, suspect · To what, where: suspicions, some

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 (general feeling, new suit, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 feeling	det
2	general	general	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 feeling	amod
3	feeling	feeling	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 honest	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 honest	cop
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 honest	mark
6	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 honest	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 honest	cop
8	honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	just	just	ADV	_	10 now	advmod
10	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 honest	advmod
11	to	to	PART	_	12 lull	mark
12	lull	lull	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 honest	csubj
13	Wendy	Wendy	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 suspicions	nmod:poss
14	’s	's	PART	_	13 Wendy	case
15	suspicions	suspicion	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 lull	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 ready	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 ready	cc
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 be	mark
19	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	21 be	expl
20	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 be	aux
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 ready	cop
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 change	det
23	change	change	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 be	nsubj
24	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	29 ready	advmod
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 suit	det
26	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 suit	amod
27	suit	suit	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 ready	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 ready	cop
29	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 honest	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 making	punct
31	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	39 making	nsubj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 which	punct
33	against	against	ADP	_	35 will	case
34	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 will	nmod:poss
35	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 making	aux
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 will	punct
37	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 making	nsubj
38	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 making	aux
39	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 ready	advcl
40	for	for	ADP	_	41 him	case
41	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 making	obl
42	out	out	ADP	_	44 some	case
43	of	of	ADP	_	44 some	case
44	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	39 making	obl
45	of	of	ADP	_	49 garments	case
46	Hook	Hook	PROPN	Number=Sing	49 garments	nmod:poss
47	’s	's	PART	_	46 Hook	case
48	wickedest	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Sup	49 garments	amod
49	garments	garment	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 some	nmod
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 honest	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the general feeling			now	honest property	tree rules
2	lull	to-infinitive		Wendy's suspicions				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus suspicion=Experiencer
3	is	infinitive	the new suit				ready property	tree rules
4	make	future · progressive			some		for Wendy	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for he=Beneficiary
5	suspect		Wendy					nom suspicion «cognition transitive»: poss=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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