Peter Pan, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE, sentence 150

Smee whispered, fidgeting with Johnny Corkscrew.

Who acts: Smee · What happens: whisper, fidget

This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Smee), 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	Smee	Smee	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 whispered	nsubj
2	whispered	whisper	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 fidgeting	punct
4	fidgeting	fidget	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 whispered	advcl
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 Johnny	case
6	Johnny	Johnny	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 fidgeting	obl
7	Corkscrew	Corkscrew	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Johnny	flat
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 whispered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	whisper speech: assert	past	Smee						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	fidget	gerund	Smee not said here					with Johnny	vn body_internal_motion-49.1 «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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