Peter Pan, Chapter XI. WENDY’S STORY, sentence 108
“Tootles,” she cried, “I appeal to you.”
Who acts: Tootles · What happens: cry, appeal · To what, where: you · 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 (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 Tootles | punct |
| 2 | Tootles | tootle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 cried | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Tootles | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Tootles | punct |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 cried | nsubj |
| 6 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 appeal | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 appeal | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 appeal | nsubj |
| 10 | appeal | appeal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 cried | ccomp |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 you | case |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 appeal | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 cried | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | Tootles | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | appeal in a quote | present | Tootles = tootle | you | vn appeal-31.4-2 «NP V PP.experiencer»: agent=Stimulus to you=Experiencer |
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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