Peter Pan, Chapter II. THE SHADOW, sentence 84
“No doubt, but I have an uneasy feeling at times that she looks upon the children as puppies.”
Who acts: Mrs., Darling · What happens: have, look · To what, where: uneasy feeling
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 (Mrs., Darling), 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 | _ | 3 doubt | punct |
| 2 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 3 doubt | det |
| 3 | doubt | doubt | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 have | punct |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 have | cc |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 have | nsubj |
| 7 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 doubt | acl |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 feeling | det |
| 9 | uneasy | uneasy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 feeling | amod |
| 10 | feeling | feeling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 have | obj |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 times | case |
| 12 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 have | obl |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 looks | mark |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 looks | nsubj |
| 15 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 have | advcl |
| 16 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 18 children | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 children | det |
| 18 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 looks | obl |
| 19 | as | as | ADP | _ | 20 puppies | case |
| 20 | puppies | puppy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 looks | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 doubt | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 doubt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | present | Mrs. | a uneasy feeling | time | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feeling=Patient | |||
| 2 | look in a quote | present | Darling | upon the children; as puppies | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon child=Theme |
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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