Peter Pan, Chapter XVII. WHEN WENDY GREW UP, sentence 95

“Who is Captain Hook?” he asked with interest when she spoke of the arch enemy.

Who acts: Captain Hook, Nana · What happens: be, ask, speak · To what, where: Captain Hook · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XVII. WHEN WENDY GREW UP. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Captain Hook, Nana), 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	_	5 Hook	punct
2	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 Hook	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 Hook	cop
4	Captain	Captain	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Hook	compound
5	Hook	hook	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 asked	nsubj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 Hook	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 Hook	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 asked	nsubj
9	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	with	with	ADP	_	11 interest	case
11	interest	interest	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 asked	obl
12	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 spoke	advmod
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 spoke	nsubj
14	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 asked	parataxis
15	of	of	ADP	_	18 enemy	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 enemy	det
17	arch	arch	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 enemy	compound
18	enemy	enemy	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 spoke	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present		Captain Hook		tree rules
2	ask speech: ask	past	Captain Hook		with interest	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	speak speech: other	past	Nana		of the arch enemy	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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