Peter Pan, Chapter XIV. THE PIRATE SHIP, sentence 30

“Barbecue, Flint—what house?” came the cutting retort.

What happens: flint, come · To what, where: house, cutting retort · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XIV. THE PIRATE SHIP. 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	_	4 Flint	punct
2	Barbecue	barbecue	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 Flint	compound
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Barbecue	punct
4	Flint	flint	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 came	ccomp
5	—	-	PUNCT	_	7 house	punct
6	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	7 house	det
7	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 Flint	obl
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 Flint	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 Flint	punct
10	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 retort	det
12	cutting	cutting	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 retort	compound
13	retort	retort	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 came	obj
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	flint in a quote	infinitive		what house					tree rules
2	come	past		the cutting retort					tree rules

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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