Peter Pan, Chapter IV. THE FLIGHT, sentence 12
Did they really feel hungry at times, or were they merely pretending, because Peter had such a jolly new way of feeding them?
Who acts: John, Peter, jolly new way · What happens: do, feel, pretend, have, feed · To what, where: jolly new way, John
This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter IV. THE FLIGHT. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (John, Peter, jolly new way), 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 | Did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 feel | nsubj |
| 3 | really | really | ADV | _ | 4 feel | advmod |
| 4 | feel | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Did | parataxis |
| 5 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 feel | xcomp |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 times | case |
| 7 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 hungry | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 pretending | punct |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 pretending | cc |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 pretending | aux |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 pretending | nsubj |
| 12 | merely | merely | ADV | _ | 13 pretending | advmod |
| 13 | pretending | pretend | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Did | advcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 had | punct |
| 15 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 17 had | mark |
| 16 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 had | nsubj |
| 17 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 pretending | conj |
| 18 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 22 way | det:predet |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 way | det |
| 20 | jolly | jolly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 way | compound |
| 21 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 way | amod |
| 22 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 had | obj |
| 23 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 24 feeding | mark |
| 24 | feeding | feed | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 way | acl |
| 25 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 feeding | obj |
| 26 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | feel | present | John | hungry property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | pretend | past · progressive | John | merely property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | have | past | Peter | such jolly new way | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Patient | ||||
| 5 | feed | gerund | such jolly new way not said here | John | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient |
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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