Peter Pan, Chapter XI. WENDY’S STORY, sentence 76

“What is it, Peter?” she cried, running to him, thinking he was ill.

Who acts: Peter, window · What happens: be, cry, run, think · To what, where: Peter, window · 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, window), 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 Peter	punct
2	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 Peter	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 Peter	cop
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 Peter	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Peter	punct
6	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 cried	nsubj
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 Peter	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 Peter	punct
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 cried	nsubj
10	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 running	punct
12	running	run	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 cried	advcl
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 him	case
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 running	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 thinking	punct
16	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 cried	advcl
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 ill	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 ill	cop
19	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 thinking	ccomp
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present		Peter			tree rules
2	cry speech: express	past	Peter				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	run	gerund	Peter not said here		window		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to he=Result
4	think speech: other	gerund	Peter not said here				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is	past	window			ill property	tree rules

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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