Peter Pan, Chapter XV. “HOOK OR ME THIS TIME”, sentence 175

But Peter issued from the powder magazine with the shell in his hands, and calmly flung it overboard.

Who acts: Peter · What happens: issue, fling · To what, where: powder magazine, shell

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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 issued	cc
2	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 issued	nsubj
3	issued	issue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	7 magazine	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 magazine	det
6	powder	powder	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 magazine	compound
7	magazine	magazine	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 issued	obl
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 shell	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 shell	det
10	shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 magazine	nmod
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 hands	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 hands	nmod:poss
13	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 issued	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 flung	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 flung	cc
16	calmly	calmly	ADV	_	17 flung	advmod
17	flung	fling	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 issued	conj
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 flung	obj
19	overboard	overboard	ADV	_	17 flung	advmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 issued	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	issue	past	Peter			the powder magazine with the shell		in Peter's hands	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hand=Location
2	fling	past	Peter not said here	shell				calmly, overboard property	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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