Peter Pan, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, sentence 232

But Peter had no sinking, he had one feeling only, gladness; and he gnashed his pretty teeth with joy.

Who acts: Peter · What happens: have, gnash · To what, where: sinking, one feeling, pretty teeth

This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Peter), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 had	cc
2	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 sinking	det
5	sinking	sinking	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 had	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 had	nsubj
8	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 had	conj
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 feeling	nummod
10	feeling	feeling	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 had	obj
11	only	only	ADV	_	10 feeling	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 gladness	punct
13	gladness	gladness	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 feeling	conj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 gnashed	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 gnashed	cc
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 gnashed	nsubj
17	gnashed	gnash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 had	conj
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 teeth	nmod:poss
19	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 teeth	amod
20	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 gnashed	obj
21	with	with	ADP	_	22 joy	case
22	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 gnashed	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	past	Peter	no sinking		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sinking=Patient
2	have	past	Peter	one feeling and gladness		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feeling=Patient
3	gnash	past	Peter	Peter's pretty teeth	with joy	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Patient

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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