Peter Pan, Chapter II. THE SHADOW, sentence 142
It was dreadful the way all the three were looking at him, just as if they did not admire him.
Who acts: row, three, spirits · What happens: be, look, not admire · To what, where: way, Michael
This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter II. THE SHADOW. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (row, three, spirits), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 dreadful | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 dreadful | cop |
| 3 | dreadful | dreadful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 way | det |
| 5 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dreadful | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 three | det:predet |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 three | det |
| 8 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 looking | nsubj |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 looking | aux |
| 10 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 way | acl:relcl |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 him | case |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 looking | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 admire | punct |
| 14 | just | just | ADV | _ | 20 admire | advmod |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 20 admire | mark |
| 16 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 20 admire | mark |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 admire | nsubj |
| 18 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 admire | aux |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 admire | advmod |
| 20 | admire | admire | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 dreadful | conj |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 admire | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 dreadful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | row | the way obl:unmarked; dreadful property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | look | past · progressive | all three | the way not said here | at Michael | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme way=Attribute | |||
| 3 | not admire a condition, not said to happen | past · do-support | spirits = spirit | Michael | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
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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