Peter Pan, Chapter X. THE HAPPY HOME, sentence 89
“What,” cried Wendy, “the mother of such an armful, dance!”
What happens: cry · To what, where: Wendy
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: 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 cried | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 cried | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 What | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 What | 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 | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 mother | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 mother | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 mother | det |
| 10 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cried | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 armful | case |
| 12 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 armful | det:predet |
| 13 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 armful | det |
| 14 | armful | armful | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 mother | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 dance | punct |
| 16 | dance | dance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 armful | conj |
| 17 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 14 armful | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | Wendy | the mother of such armful and dance obl | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wendy=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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