Peter Pan, Chapter X. THE HAPPY HOME, sentence 79

“It was me told him mothers are called old lady,” Michael whispered to Curly.

Who acts: Michael · What happens: be, tell, call, whisper · To what, where: me, gun, Wendy, mothers, Curly · 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 (Michael), 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	_	5 told	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 told	obl
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 me	cop
4	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 It	parataxis
5	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 told	iobj
7	mothers	mother	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 called	nsubj:pass
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 called	aux:pass
9	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 told	ccomp
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 lady	amod
11	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 called	xcomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 told	punct
13	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 told	punct
14	Michael	Michael	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 whispered	nsubj
15	whispered	whisper	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 told	ccomp
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 Curly	case
17	Curly	Curly	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 whispered	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	is a in a quote	past		me		tree rules
2	tell speech: assert in a quote	past		gun	Wendy	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
3	call in a quote	present · passive		mothers		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
4	whisper speech: assert	past	Michael		Curly	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to curly=Recipient

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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