Peter Pan, Chapter XI. WENDY’S STORY, sentence 39
“O Wendy,” cried Tootles, “was one of the lost children called Tootles?”
Who acts: Tootles, lost children · What happens: cry, be, lose, call · To what, where: one, Tootles · 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, lost children), 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 | O | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 3 Wendy | case |
| 3 | Wendy | Wendy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 cried | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Wendy | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Wendy | punct |
| 6 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | Tootles | tootle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 cried | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 one | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 one | punct |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 one | cop |
| 11 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 cried | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 children | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 children | det |
| 14 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 children | amod |
| 15 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 one | nmod |
| 16 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 children | acl |
| 17 | Tootles | tootle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 called | xcomp |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 cried | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | Tootles | of Wendy | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | past | one | of the lost children | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | lose in a quote | participle | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | call in a quote | participle | the lost children not said here | Tootles | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «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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