Peter Pan, Chapter XI. WENDY’S STORY, sentence 174
“Now then,” cried Peter, “no fuss, no blubbering; good-bye, Wendy;” and he held out his hand cheerily, quite as if they must really go now, for he had something important to do.
Who acts: Peter, face, others, something · What happens: cry, blubber, hold out, go, have, do · To what, where: good, hand, something · 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 (Peter, face, others, something), 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 | _ | 6 cried | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 then | advmod |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 cried | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 then | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 then | punct |
| 6 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 cried | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 fuss | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 fuss | punct |
| 10 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 11 fuss | det |
| 11 | fuss | fuss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Peter | appos |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 blubbering | punct |
| 13 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 14 blubbering | det |
| 14 | blubbering | blubber | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 Peter | conj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 6 cried | punct |
| 16 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 cried | obl |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 good | punct |
| 18 | bye | bye | INTJ | _ | 16 good | flat |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 Wendy | punct |
| 20 | Wendy | Wendy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 cried | obl |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 6 cried | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 cried | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 held | cc |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 held | nsubj |
| 25 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 cried | conj |
| 26 | out | out | ADP | _ | 25 held | compound:prt |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 hand | nmod:poss |
| 28 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 held | obj |
| 29 | cheerily | cheerily | ADV | _ | 25 held | advmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 go | punct |
| 31 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 37 go | advmod |
| 32 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 37 go | mark |
| 33 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 37 go | mark |
| 34 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 go | nsubj |
| 35 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 go | aux |
| 36 | really | really | ADV | _ | 37 go | advmod |
| 37 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 cried | conj |
| 38 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 37 go | advmod |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 had | punct |
| 40 | for | for | ADP | _ | 42 had | case |
| 41 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 had | nsubj |
| 42 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 cried | parataxis |
| 43 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 42 had | obj |
| 44 | important | important | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 something | amod |
| 45 | to | to | PART | _ | 46 do | mark |
| 46 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 44 important | xcomp |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | Peter | good | then | Wendy obl | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||
| 2 | blubber in a quote | gerund | Peter not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | hold out | past | face | face's hand | cheerily property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme | |||
| 4 | go a condition, not said to happen | must | others = other | now | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | have | past | face | something | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Patient | ||||
| 6 | do | to-infinitive | something not said here | vn act-114-1 «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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