Peter Pan, Chapter XV. “HOOK OR ME THIS TIME”, sentence 72
“Wait till Cecco comes out,” growled Starkey, and the others took up the cry.
Who acts: Cecco, others · What happens: wait, come out, growl, take up · To what, where: Starkey, cry · 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 (Cecco, others), 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 | _ | 2 Wait | punct |
| 2 | Wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 growled | ccomp |
| 3 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 5 comes | mark |
| 4 | Cecco | Cecco | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 comes | nsubj |
| 5 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Wait | advcl |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 comes | compound:prt |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Wait | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Wait | punct |
| 9 | growled | growl | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | Starkey | Starkey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 growled | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 took | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 took | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 others | det |
| 14 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 took | nsubj |
| 15 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 growled | conj |
| 16 | up | up | ADP | _ | 15 took | compound:prt |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 cry | det |
| 18 | cry | cry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 took | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 growled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait in a quote | infinitive | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | come out in a quote | present | Cecco | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | growl | past | Starkey | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | take up | past | the others | the cry | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cry=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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