Peter Pan, Chapter X. THE HAPPY HOME, sentence 13

They said “How-do?” to them, and things like that; and what annoyed the boys was that Peter seemed to think this all right.

Who acts: pirates, Peter · What happens: say, do, be, seem, think · To what, where: things, pirates, this · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter X. THE HAPPY HOME. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pirates, Peter), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	“	"	PUNCT	_	6 do	punct
4	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 do	advmod
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 do	punct
6	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 said	ccomp
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 do	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 do	punct
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 them	case
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 do	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 things	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 things	cc
13	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 said	obl
14	like	like	ADP	_	15 that	case
15	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 things	nmod
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 annoyed	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 annoyed	cc
18	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	19 annoyed	nsubj
19	annoyed	annoyed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 said	parataxis
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 boys	det
21	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 annoyed	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 annoyed	cop
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 seemed	mark
24	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 seemed	nsubj
25	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 annoyed	advcl
26	to	to	PART	_	27 think	mark
27	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 seemed	xcomp
28	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	27 think	obj
29	all	all	ADV	_	30 right	advmod
30	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 think	xcomp
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: ask	past	pirates = pirate	things like that			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	do in a quote	infinitive			pirates = pirate		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	past				annoyed property	tree rules
4	seem	past	Peter				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
5	think speech: other	to-infinitive	Peter not said here	this		right property	vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot this=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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