Peter Pan, Chapter XI. WENDY’S STORY, sentence 103
“It will be worse than before she came,” they cried.
Who acts: scene, Panic, boys · What happens: be, come, cry · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XI. WENDY’S STORY. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (scene, Panic, boys), 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 worse | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 worse | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 worse | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 worse | cop |
| 5 | worse | bad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 6 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 9 came | mark |
| 7 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 9 came | mark |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 came | nsubj |
| 9 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 cried | advcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 came | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 came | punct |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 cried | nsubj |
| 13 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 worse | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 worse | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | future | scene | bad property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come in a quote | past | Panic | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | cry speech: express | past | boys = boy | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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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