Peter Pan, Chapter XI. WENDY’S STORY, sentence 110

She appealed to Tootles, quite the silliest one.

Who acts: Panic · What happens: appeal

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 (Panic), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 appealed	nsubj
2	appealed	appeal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 Tootles	case
4	Tootles	tootle	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 appealed	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 one	punct
6	quite	quite	DET	PronType=Ind	9 one	det:predet
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 one	det
8	silliest	silly	ADJ	Degree=Sup	9 one	amod
9	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 Tootles	nmod
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 appealed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	appeal	past	Panic					to Tootles quite silliest one	vn appeal-31.4-2 «NP V PP.experiencer»: agent=Stimulus to tootle=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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