Peter Pan, Chapter XI. WENDY’S STORY, sentence 61

“O Wendy, who is she?” cried Nibs, every bit as excited as if he didn’t know.

Who acts: Wendy, Nibs, Station · What happens: be, cry, not know · To what, where: Wendy · 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 (Wendy, Nibs, Station), 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	_	10 cried	punct
2	O	of	ADP	Abbr=Yes	3 Wendy	case
3	Wendy	Wendy	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 cried	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 she	punct
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 she	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 she	cop
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 Wendy	conj
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 Wendy	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 Wendy	punct
10	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	Nibs	nib	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 cried	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 excited	punct
13	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	14 bit	det
14	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 excited	obl:unmarked
15	as	as	ADV	_	16 excited	advmod
16	excited	excited	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 cried	parataxis
17	as	as	SCONJ	_	22 know	mark
18	if	if	SCONJ	_	22 know	mark
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 know	nsubj
20	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 know	aux
21	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 know	advmod
22	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 excited	advcl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	Wendy	Wendy		tree rules
2	cry speech: express	past	Nibs		of Wendy	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	not know	past · do-support	Station			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: 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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