Peter Pan, Chapter XIV. THE PIRATE SHIP, sentence 121
Even the pirates were awed, and Tootles cried out hysterically, “I am going to do what my mother hopes.
Who acts: Tootles, mother · What happens: awe, cry out, go, do, hope · To what, where: pirates · 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 (Tootles, 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 | Even | even | ADV | _ | 3 pirates | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 pirates | det |
| 3 | pirates | pirate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 awed | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 awed | aux:pass |
| 5 | awed | awe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 cried | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 cried | cc |
| 8 | Tootles | tootle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 cried | nsubj |
| 9 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 awed | conj |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 cried | compound:prt |
| 11 | hysterically | hysterically | ADV | _ | 9 cried | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 going | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 going | punct |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 going | nsubj |
| 15 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 going | aux |
| 16 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 cried | advcl |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 do | mark |
| 18 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 going | xcomp |
| 19 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 22 hopes | obj |
| 20 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 mother | nmod:poss |
| 21 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 hopes | nsubj |
| 22 | hopes | hope | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 do | ccomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 awed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | awe | past · passive | the pirates | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | cry out speech: express | past | Tootles | hysterically property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | go in a quote | present · progressive | Tootles = tootle | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | do in a quote | to-infinitive | Tootles = tootle not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | hope in a quote | present | my mother | tree rules |
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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