Peter Pan, Chapter IX. THE NEVER BIRD, sentence 15
“What are you quacking about?”
Who acts: you · What happens: quack
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 (you), 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 quacking | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 quacking | obj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 quacking | aux |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 quacking | nsubj |
| 5 | quacking | quack | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | about | about | ADP | _ | 5 quacking | obl |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 quacking | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 quacking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | quack in a quote | present · progressive | you | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent what=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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