Peter Pan, Chapter XII. THE CHILDREN ARE CARRIED OFF, sentence 67
“The tom-tom,” the miscreants heard Peter cry; “an Indian victory!”
Who acts: tom tom · What happens: hear · To what, where: Peter cry
This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XII. THE CHILDREN ARE CARRIED OFF. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tom tom), 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 heard | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 tom | det |
| 3 | tom | tom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tom | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 tom | punct |
| 5 | tom | tom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 heard | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 tom | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 tom | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 miscreants | det |
| 9 | miscreants | miscreant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 tom | nmod |
| 10 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 cry | compound |
| 12 | cry | cry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 heard | obj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 heard | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 victory | punct |
| 15 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 victory | det |
| 16 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 victory | amod |
| 17 | victory | victory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 heard | obl |
| 18 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 17 victory | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 victory | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | the tom tom the miscreants | Peter cry | a Indian victory obl | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer cry=Stimulus |
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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