Peter Pan, Chapter IX. THE NEVER BIRD, sentence 9

I rather wonder at the bird, for though he had been nice to her, he had also sometimes tormented her.

Who acts: I, bird · What happens: wonder, be, have, torment · To what, where: Peter

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 (I, 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 wonder	nsubj
2	rather	rather	ADV	_	3 wonder	advmod
3	wonder	wonder	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 bird	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bird	det
6	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wonder	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 nice	punct
8	for	for	SCONJ	_	13 nice	mark
9	though	though	SCONJ	_	13 nice	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 nice	nsubj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 nice	aux
12	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 nice	cop
13	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 wonder	conj
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 her	case
15	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 nice	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 had	punct
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 had	nsubj
18	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 wonder	parataxis
19	also	also	ADV	_	21 tormented	advmod
20	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	21 tormented	advmod
21	tormented	torment	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 had	advcl
22	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 tormented	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 wonder	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	wonder speech: ask	present	I			at the bird	vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	past · perfect	bird		Peter	nice property	tree rules
3	have	past	bird				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	torment	past	bird not said here	Peter		sometimes property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer

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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