Peter Pan, Chapter VII. THE HOME UNDER THE GROUND, sentence 25

Tink was very contemptuous of the rest of the house, as indeed was perhaps inevitable, and her chamber, though beautiful, looked rather conceited, having the appearance of a nose permanently turned up.

Who acts: Tink · What happens: be, look, have, turn up · To what, where: appearance

This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter VII. THE HOME UNDER THE GROUND. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tink), 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	Tink	Tink	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 contemptuous	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 contemptuous	cop
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 contemptuous	advmod
4	contemptuous	contemptuous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 rest	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 rest	det
7	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 contemptuous	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 house	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 house	det
10	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 rest	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 inevitable	punct
12	as	as	SCONJ	_	16 inevitable	mark
13	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	16 inevitable	advmod
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 inevitable	cop
15	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	16 inevitable	advmod
16	inevitable	inevitable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 contemptuous	parataxis
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 chamber	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 chamber	cc
19	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 chamber	nmod:poss
20	chamber	chamber	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 inevitable	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 looked	punct
22	though	though	SCONJ	_	25 looked	mark
23	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 looked	advcl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 beautiful	punct
25	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 contemptuous	conj
26	rather	rather	ADV	_	27 conceited	advmod
27	conceited	conceited	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 looked	xcomp
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 having	punct
29	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 looked	advcl
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 appearance	det
31	appearance	appearance	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 having	obj
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 nose	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 nose	det
34	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 appearance	nmod
35	permanently	permanently	ADV	_	36 turned	advmod
36	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 having	advcl
37	up	up	ADP	_	36 turned	compound:prt
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 contemptuous	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	Tink		of the rest of the house; contemptuous property	tree rules
2	is	past			indeed, inevitable, perhaps property	tree rules
3	look	past	Tink not said here		conceited property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
4	have	gerund	Tink not said here	the appearance of a nose		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent appearance=Patient
5	turn up	past	Tink not said here		permanently property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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