Peter Pan, Chapter XI. WENDY’S STORY, sentence 90
“Wendy, let us go home,” cried John and Michael together.
Who acts: John, us · What happens: let, go, cry · To what, where: us · 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 (John, us), 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 | _ | 2 Wendy | punct |
| 2 | Wendy | Wendy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 cried | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 let | punct |
| 4 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Wendy | conj |
| 5 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 let | obj |
| 6 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 let | xcomp |
| 7 | home | home | ADV | _ | 6 go | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Wendy | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Wendy | punct |
| 10 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 cried | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 Michael | cc |
| 13 | Michael | Michael | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 John | conj |
| 14 | together | together | ADV | _ | 10 cried | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let in a quote | infinitive | John and Michael not said here | us | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go in a quote | infinitive | us not said here | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | cry speech: express | past | John and Michael | together property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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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