Peter Pan, Chapter IV. THE FLIGHT, sentence 119

“Hook,” answered Peter, and his face became very stern as he said that hated word.

Who acts: Hook, face · What happens: answer, become, say, hate · To what, where: Peter · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter IV. THE FLIGHT. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hook, face), 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 Hook	punct
2	Hook	hook	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 answered	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Hook	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Hook	punct
5	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 answered	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 became	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 became	cc
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 face	nmod:poss
10	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 became	nsubj
11	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 answered	conj
12	very	very	ADV	_	13 stern	advmod
13	stern	stern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 became	xcomp
14	as	as	SCONJ	_	16 said	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 said	nsubj
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 stern	advcl
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 word	mark
18	hated	hate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 word	amod
19	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 said	ccomp
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	Hook	Peter		vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent peter=Eventuality
2	become	past	Peter's face		stern property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	say speech: assert	past	face			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	hate	participle				vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer

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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