Peter Pan, Chapter XIII. DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES?, sentence 95

“Oh, you could never guess!” she cried, and offered him three guesses.

Who acts: you, face · What happens: not guess, cry, offer · To what, where: three guesses, way · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XIII. DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES?. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, face), 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	_	7 guess	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	7 guess	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 guess	nsubj
5	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 guess	aux
6	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 guess	advmod
7	guess	guess	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 cried	parataxis
8	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 guess	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 guess	punct
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 cried	nsubj
11	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 offered	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 offered	cc
14	offered	offer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 cried	conj
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 offered	iobj
16	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 guesses	nummod
17	guesses	guess	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 offered	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	not guess in a quote	could	you			vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	cry speech: express	past	face			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	offer	past	face not said here	three guesses	way	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent he=Goal guess=Theme

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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