Peter Pan, Chapter II. THE SHADOW, sentence 154

“It was only a joke,” he roared, while she comforted her boys, and Wendy hugged Nana.

Who acts: bowl, George, Mrs., Wendy · What happens: be, roar, comfort, hug · To what, where: joke, boys, Nana · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter II. THE SHADOW. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bowl, George, Mrs., Wendy), 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	_	6 joke	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 joke	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 joke	cop
4	only	only	ADV	_	6 joke	advmod
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 joke	det
6	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 roared	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 joke	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 joke	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 roared	nsubj
10	roared	roar	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 comforted	punct
12	while	while	SCONJ	_	14 comforted	mark
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 comforted	nsubj
14	comforted	comfort	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 roared	conj
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 boys	nmod:poss
16	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 comforted	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 hugged	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 hugged	cc
19	Wendy	Wendy	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 hugged	nsubj
20	hugged	hug	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 roared	conj
21	Nana	Nana	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 hugged	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 roared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a in a quote	past	bowl	a joke	tree rules
2	roar	past	George		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location
3	comfort	past	Mrs.	Mrs.'s boys	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus boy=Experiencer
4	hug	past	Wendy	Nana	vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nana=Co-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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