Peter Pan, Chapter XIV. THE PIRATE SHIP, sentence 101
“And I refuse,” cried Michael.
Who acts: Michael · What happens: refuse, cry · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XIV. THE PIRATE SHIP. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Michael), 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 cried | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 refuse | cc |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 refuse | nsubj |
| 4 | refuse | refuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 cried | parataxis |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 refuse | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 refuse | punct |
| 7 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Michael | Michael | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 cried | obj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | refuse in a quote | present | Michael | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | Michael | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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