Peter Pan, Chapter XV. “HOOK OR ME THIS TIME”, sentence 54

“What was that?” cried Hook.

Who acts: that · What happens: be, cry · To what, where: that, Hook · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (that), 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 cried	punct
2	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 that	obj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 that	cop
4	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 cried	nsubj
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 that	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 that	punct
7	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	Hook	hook	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cried	obj
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	past		that					tree rules
2	cry speech: express	past	that	Hook					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hook=Topic

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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