Peter Pan, Chapter IX. THE NEVER BIRD, sentence 20

“What—are—you—quacking—about?” and so on.

What happens: be, 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: 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	_	8 quacking	punct
2	What	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 quacking	obl
3	—	-	PUNCT	_	2 What	punct
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 What	cop
5	—	-	PUNCT	_	6 you	punct
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 What	appos
7	—	-	PUNCT	_	8 quacking	punct
8	quacking	quack	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
9	—	-	PUNCT	_	8 quacking	punct
10	about	about	ADV	_	8 quacking	advmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 quacking	punct
12	”	"	PUNCT	_	8 quacking	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 on	cc
14	so	so	ADV	_	15 on	advmod
15	on	on	ADV	_	8 quacking	conj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 quacking	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present							tree rules
2	quack in a quote	gerund						about property	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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