Peter Pan, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE, sentence 197

The jealous fairy had now cast off all disguise of friendship, and was darting at her victim from every direction, pinching savagely each time she touched.

Who acts: distinct · What happens: cast off, dart, pinch, touch · To what, where: jealous fairy, victim, time

This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (distinct), 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 fairy	det
2	jealous	jealous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 fairy	amod
3	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cast	nsubj:pass
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 cast	aux
5	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 cast	advmod
6	cast	cast	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	off	off	ADP	_	9 disguise	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 disguise	det
9	disguise	disguise	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cast	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 friendship	case
11	friendship	friendship	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 disguise	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 darting	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 darting	cc
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 darting	aux
15	darting	dart	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 cast	advcl
16	at	at	ADP	_	18 victim	case
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 victim	nmod:poss
18	victim	victim	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 darting	obl
19	from	from	ADP	_	21 direction	case
20	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	21 direction	det
21	direction	direction	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 darting	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 pinching	punct
23	pinching	pinch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 darting	conj
24	savagely	savagely	ADV	_	23 pinching	advmod
25	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	26 time	det
26	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 pinching	obj
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 touched	nsubj
28	touched	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 time	acl:relcl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 cast	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cast off	past · perfect · passive		the jealous fairy		now	off all disguise of friendship	vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP PP»: subject=Beneficiary disguise=Product
2	dart	past · progressive			distinct's victim		from every direction	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at victim=Trajectory
3	pinch	gerund				time	savagely property	vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	touch	past	distinct	each time not said here				vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme time=Co-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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