Peter Pan, Chapter VI. THE LITTLE HOUSE, sentence 149

“I will call again in the evening,” Slightly said; “give her beef tea out of a cup with a spout to it;” but after he had returned the hat to John he blew big breaths, which was his habit on escaping from a difficulty.

Who acts: I, Peter, big breaths, habit · What happens: call, say, give, return, blow, be · To what, where: beef tea, spout, cup, hat, John, big breaths · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter VI. THE LITTLE HOUSE. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Peter, big breaths, habit), 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	_	4 call	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 call	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 call	aux
4	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 said	ccomp
5	again	again	ADV	_	4 call	advmod
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 evening	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 evening	det
8	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 call	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 call	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 call	punct
11	Slightly	slightly	ADV	_	12 said	advmod
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 give	punct
14	“	"	PUNCT	_	15 give	punct
15	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 said	ccomp
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 tea	nmod:poss
17	beef	beef	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 tea	compound
18	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 give	obj
19	out	out	ADP	_	22 cup	case
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 cup	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 cup	det
22	cup	cup	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 give	obl
23	with	with	ADP	_	25 spout	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 spout	det
25	spout	spout	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 give	obl
26	to	to	ADP	_	27 it	case
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 give	obl
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct
29	”	"	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct
30	but	but	CCONJ	_	34 returned	cc
31	after	after	SCONJ	_	34 returned	mark
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 returned	nsubj
33	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 returned	aux
34	returned	return	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	40 blew	advcl
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 hat	det
36	hat	hat	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 returned	obj
37	to	to	ADP	_	38 John	case
38	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 returned	obl
39	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 blew	nsubj
40	blew	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 said	conj
41	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 breaths	amod
42	breaths	breath	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 blew	obj
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 habit	punct
44	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	47 habit	nsubj
45	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 habit	cop
46	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	47 habit	nmod:poss
47	habit	habit	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 breaths	nmod
48	on	on	SCONJ	_	49 escaping	mark
49	escaping	escape	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	47 habit	acl
50	from	from	ADP	_	52 difficulty	case
51	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	52 difficulty	det
52	difficulty	difficulty	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 escaping	obl
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call in a quote	future	I				again; evening		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past						slightly property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	give in a quote	infinitive		fender's beef tea	spout	a cup		with a spout	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent tea=Theme to it=Recipient
4	return	past · perfect	Peter	the hat	John				vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hat=Theme to john=Destination
5	blow	past	Peter	big breaths					vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent breath=Patient
6	is a	past	big breaths	Peter's habit					tree rules
7	escape	gerund	Peter's habit not said here			a difficulty			vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from difficulty=Initial_Location

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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