Peter Pan, Chapter VI. THE LITTLE HOUSE, sentence 45

“Perhaps she is frightened at being dead.”

What happens: frighten, be · To what, where: voice

This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter VI. THE LITTLE HOUSE. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	_	5 frightened	punct
2	Perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	5 frightened	advmod
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 frightened	nsubj:pass
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 frightened	aux:pass
5	frightened	frighten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 dead	case
7	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 dead	cop
8	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 frightened	obl
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 frightened	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 frightened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	frighten in a quote	present · passive		voice				perhaps property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
2	is in a quote	gerund						dead property	tree rules

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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