Peter Pan, Chapter X. THE HAPPY HOME, sentence 23

“Silence,” cried Wendy when for the twentieth time she had told them that they were not all to speak at once.

Who acts: Silence, Tootles · What happens: cry, tell, speak · To what, where: Tootles · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter X. THE HAPPY HOME. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Silence, Tootles), 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 Silence	punct
2	Silence	silence	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cried	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Silence	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Silence	punct
5	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	Wendy	Wendy	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 cried	flat
7	when	when	SCONJ	_	14 told	mark
8	for	for	ADP	_	11 time	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 time	det
10	twentieth	twentieth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 time	amod
11	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 told	obl
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 told	nsubj
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 told	aux
14	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 cried	advcl
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 told	iobj
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 speak	mark
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 speak	nsubj
18	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 speak	aux
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 all	advmod
20	all	all	ADV	_	22 speak	advmod
21	to	to	PART	_	22 speak	mark
22	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 told	ccomp
23	at	at	ADP	_	24 once	case
24	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	22 speak	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	Silence				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	tell speech: assert	past · perfect	Silence	Tootles = tootle	time		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
3	speak speech: other not said to happen	past	Tootles = tootle			all property	vn talk-37.5 «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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