Peter Pan, Chapter IX. THE NEVER BIRD, sentence 23

Peter felt that she was calling him names, and at a venture he retorted hotly:

Who acts: Peter, bird · What happens: feel, call, retort · To what, where: bird, venture · Speech: someone speaks here

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), 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	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 felt	nsubj
2	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 calling	mark
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 calling	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 calling	aux
6	calling	call	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 felt	advcl
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 calling	obj
8	names	name	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 calling	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 retorted	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 retorted	cc
11	at	at	ADP	_	13 venture	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 venture	det
13	venture	venture	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 retorted	obl
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 retorted	nsubj
15	retorted	retort	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 felt	conj
16	hotly	hotly	ADV	_	15 retorted	advmod
17	:	:	PUNCT	_	15 retorted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	feel	past	Peter				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	call	past · progressive	Peter	bird			vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme name=Result
3	retort speech: other	past	bird		a venture	hotly property	vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: 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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