Peter Pan, Chapter IX. THE NEVER BIRD, sentence 11

She called out to him what she had come for, and he called out to her what she was doing there; but of course neither of them understood the other’s language.

Who acts: Peter, bird, neither · What happens: call out, come, do, understand · To what, where: bird, Peter, language

This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter IX. THE NEVER BIRD. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Peter, bird, neither), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 called	nsubj
2	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	2 called	compound:prt
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 him	case
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 called	obl
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 come	nsubj
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 come	nsubj
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 come	aux
9	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 called	parataxis
10	for	for	ADP	_	9 come	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 called	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 called	cc
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 called	nsubj
14	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 called	conj
15	out	out	ADP	_	14 called	compound:prt
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 her	case
17	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 called	obl
18	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	21 doing	obj
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 doing	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 doing	aux
21	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 called	advcl
22	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 doing	advmod
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 understood	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 understood	cc
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 neither	case
26	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 of	fixed
27	neither	neither	DET	PronType=Neg	30 understood	nsubj
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 them	case
29	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 neither	nmod
30	understood	understand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 called	conj
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 other	det
32	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 language	nmod:poss
33	’s	's	PART	_	32 other	case
34	language	language	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 understood	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 called	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	call out speech: assert	past	Peter		bird		vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient
2	come	past · perfect					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	call out speech: assert	past	bird		Peter		vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient
4	do	past · progressive	Peter			there	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
5	understand	past	neither	the other's language			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer language=Stimulus

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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