Peter Pan, Chapter XVI. THE RETURN HOME, sentence 122

“Come on, Tink,” he cried, with a frightful sneer at the laws of nature; “we don’t want any silly mothers;” and he flew away.

Who acts: Wendy, we · What happens: come on, cry, not want, fly away · To what, where: Tink, silly mothers · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XVI. THE RETURN HOME. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wendy, we), 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 Come	punct
2	Come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 cried	parataxis
3	on	on	ADV	_	2 Come	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 Tink	punct
5	Tink	Tink	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Come	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Come	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Come	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 cried	nsubj
9	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 sneer	punct
11	with	with	ADP	_	14 sneer	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 sneer	det
13	frightful	frightful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 sneer	amod
14	sneer	sneer	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cried	obl
15	at	at	ADP	_	17 laws	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 laws	det
17	laws	law	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 sneer	nmod
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 nature	case
19	nature	nature	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 laws	nmod
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 want	punct
21	“	"	PUNCT	_	25 want	punct
22	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 want	nsubj
23	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 want	aux
24	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 want	advmod
25	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 cried	conj
26	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	28 mothers	det
27	silly	silly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 mothers	amod
28	mothers	mother	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 want	obj
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 cried	punct
30	”	"	PUNCT	_	9 cried	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 flew	cc
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 flew	nsubj
33	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 cried	conj
34	away	away	ADV	_	33 flew	advmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	come on in a quote	infinitive		Tink		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	cry speech: express	past	Wendy		with a frightful sneer at the laws of nature	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not want in a quote	present · do-support	we	any silly mothers		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot mother=Theme
4	fly away	past	Wendy		away property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «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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