Peter Pan, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!, sentence 106

She poured out questions about them, to his surprise, for they were rather a nuisance to him, getting in his way and so on, and indeed he sometimes had to give them a hiding.

Who acts: fairy, Gardens, life · What happens: pour out, be, get, have, give, surprise · To what, where: questions, life, way, hiding, Gardens

This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fairy, Gardens, life), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 poured	nsubj
2	poured	pour	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	2 poured	compound:prt
4	questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 poured	obj
5	about	about	ADP	_	6 them	case
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 questions	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 surprise	punct
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 surprise	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 surprise	nmod:poss
10	surprise	surprise	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 poured	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 nuisance	punct
12	for	for	ADP	_	17 nuisance	case
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 nuisance	nsubj
14	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 nuisance	cop
15	rather	rather	ADV	_	17 nuisance	advmod
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 nuisance	det
17	nuisance	nuisance	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 surprise	nmod
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 him	case
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 nuisance	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 getting	punct
21	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 poured	parataxis
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 way	case
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 way	nmod:poss
24	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 getting	obl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 on	cc
26	so	so	ADV	_	27 on	advmod
27	on	on	ADV	_	21 getting	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 had	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 had	cc
30	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	33 had	advmod
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 had	nsubj
32	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	33 had	advmod
33	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 poured	conj
34	to	to	PART	_	35 give	mark
35	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 had	xcomp
36	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 give	iobj
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 hiding	det
38	hiding	hiding	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 give	obj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 poured	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	pour out	past	fairy	questions			about Gardens = garden; to life's surprise	vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent question=Patient
2	is	past	Gardens = garden		life		for a nuisance	tree rules
3	get	gerund				life's way		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
4	have	past	life				indeed, sometimes property	tree rules
5	give	to-infinitive	life not said here	a hiding	Gardens = garden			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient hiding=Theme
6	surprise		life					nom surprise «feeling transitive»: poss=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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