Peter Pan, Chapter XV. “HOOK OR ME THIS TIME”, sentence 134

“Peter Pan the avenger!” came the terrible answer; and as he spoke Peter flung off his cloak.

Who acts: Peter · What happens: come, speak, fling off · To what, where: terrible answer, cloak · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XV. “HOOK OR ME THIS TIME”. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	“	"	PUNCT	_	2 Peter	punct
2	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 came	nsubj
3	Pan	Pan	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Peter	flat
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 avenger	det
5	avenger	avenger	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Peter	appos
6	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Peter	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Peter	punct
8	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 answer	det
10	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 answer	amod
11	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 came	obj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 spoke	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 spoke	cc
14	as	as	SCONJ	_	16 spoke	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 spoke	nsubj
16	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 came	parataxis
17	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 flung	nsubj
18	flung	fling	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 spoke	ccomp
19	off	off	ADP	_	18 flung	compound:prt
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 cloak	nmod:poss
21	cloak	cloak	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 flung	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	come	past	Peter	the terrible answer	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location answer=Theme
2	speak speech: other	past	Peter		tree rules
3	fling off	past	Peter	Peter's cloak	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cloak=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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