Peter Pan, Chapter XIII. DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES?, sentence 96

“Out with it!” he shouted, and in one ungrammatical sentence, as long as the ribbons that conjurers pull from their mouths, she told of the capture of Wendy and the boys.

Who acts: dress, ribbons, mouth · What happens: shout, pull, tell, capture · To what, where: Wendy · 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 (dress, ribbons, mouth), 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	_	8 shouted	punct
2	Out	out	ADV	_	4 it	advmod
3	with	with	ADP	_	4 it	case
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 shouted	nsubj
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 it	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 it	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 shouted	nsubj
8	shouted	shout	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 sentence	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 sentence	cc
11	in	in	ADP	_	14 sentence	case
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 sentence	nummod
13	ungrammatical	ungrammatical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 sentence	amod
14	sentence	sentence	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 shouted	ccomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 long	punct
16	as	as	ADV	_	17 long	advmod
17	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	14 sentence	advmod
18	as	as	ADP	_	20 ribbons	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 ribbons	det
20	ribbons	ribbon	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 long	obl
21	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 pull	nsubj
22	conjurers	conjurer	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 pull	nsubj
23	pull	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 ribbons	acl:relcl
24	from	from	ADP	_	26 mouths	case
25	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 mouths	nmod:poss
26	mouths	mouth	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 pull	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 told	punct
28	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 told	nsubj
29	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 shouted	conj
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 capture	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 capture	det
32	capture	capture	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 told	obl
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 Wendy	case
34	Wendy	Wendy	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 capture	nmod
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 boys	cc
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 boys	det
37	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 Wendy	conj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 shouted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	shout speech: express	past	dress			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	pull	present	the ribbons		from conjurers's mouths	vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient from mouth=Co-Patient
3	tell speech: assert	past	mouth		of the capture of Wendy and the boys	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	capture			Wendy and the boys		nom capture «act transitive»: of=patient

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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