Peter Pan, Chapter XIV. THE PIRATE SHIP, sentence 117

“Silence all,” he called gloatingly, “for a mother’s last words to her children.”

Who acts: Silence, mother · What happens: call, word · To what, where: all · 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 (Silence, mother), 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 called	punct
2	Silence	silence	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 all	nsubj
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 called	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 all	punct
5	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 all	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 called	nsubj
7	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	gloatingly	gloatingly	ADV	_	7 called	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 words	punct
10	“	"	PUNCT	_	16 words	punct
11	for	for	ADP	_	16 words	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 mother	det
13	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 words	nmod:poss
14	’s	's	PART	_	13 mother	case
15	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 words	amod
16	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 called	obl
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 children	case
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 children	nmod:poss
19	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 words	nmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 called	punct
21	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 called	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	past	Silence	all				for a mother's last words to porthole's children; gloatingly property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for word=Recipient
2	word in a quote		a mother					to porthole's children	nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent to=obl

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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