Peter Pan, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, sentence 138
“Brimstone and gall,” thundered Hook, “what cozening is going on here!”
Who acts: Brimstone · What happens: thunder, cozen, go on · To what, where: Hook · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Brimstone), 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 Brimstone | punct |
| 2 | Brimstone | brimstone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 thundered | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 gall | cc |
| 4 | gall | gall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Brimstone | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Brimstone | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Brimstone | punct |
| 7 | thundered | thunder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Hook | Hook | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 thundered | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 going | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 going | punct |
| 11 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 12 cozening | obj |
| 12 | cozening | cozen | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 going | advcl |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 going | aux |
| 14 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 thundered | ccomp |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 going | compound:prt |
| 16 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 going | advmod |
| 17 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 14 going | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 thundered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thunder | past | Brimstone and gall | Hook | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cozen in a quote | gerund | vn cheat-10.6.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Source | ||||||
| 3 | go on in a quote | present · progressive | Brimstone and gall not said here | here | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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