Peter Pan, Chapter XIV. THE PIRATE SHIP, sentence 137

But he never reached her, he never heard the cry of anguish he hoped to wring from her.

Who acts: Hook, anguish · What happens: not reach, not hear, hope, cry · To what, where: Curly, cry, wring

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 (Hook, anguish), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 reached	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 reached	nsubj
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 reached	advmod
4	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 reached	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 heard	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 heard	nsubj
8	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	9 heard	advmod
9	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 reached	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 cry	det
11	cry	cry	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 heard	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 anguish	case
13	anguish	anguish	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 cry	nmod
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 hoped	nsubj
15	hoped	hope	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 anguish	acl:relcl
16	to	to	PART	_	17 wring	mark
17	wring	wring	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 hoped	obj
18	from	from	ADP	_	19 her	case
19	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 wring	nmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 reached	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not reach	past	Hook	Curly		vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent she=Theme
2	not hear	past	Hook	the cry of anguish		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer cry=Stimulus
3	hope	past	Hook	wring	from Curly	tree rules
4	cry		anguish			nom cry «communication intransitive»: of=agent

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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