Peter Pan, Chapter X. THE HAPPY HOME, sentence 38

“We complain of John,” cried the twins.

Who acts: We, twins · What happens: complain, cry · 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 (We, twins), 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	_	3 complain	punct
2	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 complain	nsubj
3	complain	complain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 cried	parataxis
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 John	case
5	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 complain	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 complain	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 complain	punct
8	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 twins	det
10	twins	twin	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 cried	obj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	complain speech: other in a quote	present	We					of John	vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	cry speech: express	past	the twins						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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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