Peter Pan, Chapter XIV. THE PIRATE SHIP, sentence 156

He signed to them not to give vent to any cry of admiration that might rouse suspicion.

Who acts: Peter, admiration · What happens: sign, not give, rouse, cry · To what, where: men, vent, cry, suspicion

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 (Peter, admiration), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 signed	nsubj
2	signed	sign	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 them	case
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 signed	obl
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 give	advmod
6	to	to	PART	_	7 give	mark
7	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 signed	ccomp
8	vent	vent	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 give	obj
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 cry	case
10	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	11 cry	det
11	cry	cry	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 give	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 admiration	case
13	admiration	admiration	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 cry	nmod
14	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 rouse	nsubj
15	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 rouse	aux
16	rouse	rouse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 admiration	acl:relcl
17	suspicion	suspicion	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 rouse	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 signed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	sign	past	Peter		men = man	vn instr_communication-37.4.1 «NP V PP.recipient when S_INF»: agent=Agent to they=Recipient clause=Topic
2	not give	to-infinitive	Peter not said here	vent	any cry of admiration	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent vent=Theme to cry=Recipient
3	rouse	might	admiration	suspicion		vn stimulate-59.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent suspicion=Patient
4	cry		admiration			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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