Peter Pan, Chapter XI. WENDY’S STORY, sentence 23
“White rats,” cried Nibs, inspired.
Who acts: White rats · What happens: cry, inspire · To what, where: Nibs
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 (White rats), 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 | _ | 3 rats | punct |
| 2 | White | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 rats | amod |
| 3 | rats | rat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 cried | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 rats | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 rats | punct |
| 6 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | Nibs | nib | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 cried | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 inspired | punct |
| 9 | inspired | inspire | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 Nibs | acl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | White rats | Nibs | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nib=Topic | ||||
| 2 | inspire | participle | Nibs not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=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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