Peter Pan, Chapter XV. “HOOK OR ME THIS TIME”, sentence 20

“How clever of me!” he thought at once, and signed to the boys not to burst into applause.

Who acts: Peter · What happens: think, sign, not burst · To what, where: applause

This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XV. “HOOK OR ME THIS TIME”. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Peter), 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	_	3 clever	punct
2	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	3 clever	advmod
3	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 thought	ccomp
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 me	case
5	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 clever	obl
6	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 clever	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 clever	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 thought	nsubj
9	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 once	case
11	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	9 thought	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 signed	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 signed	cc
14	signed	sign	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 thought	conj
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 boys	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 boys	det
17	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 signed	obl:agent
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 burst	advmod
19	to	to	PART	_	20 burst	mark
20	burst	burst	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 signed	advcl
21	into	into	ADP	_	22 applause	case
22	applause	applause	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 burst	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	Peter		vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	sign	participle	Peter not said here		vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	not burst	to-infinitive	Peter not said here	applause	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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