Peter Pan, Chapter XVI. THE RETURN HOME, sentence 129

“I say,” cried John, “the kennel!” and he dashed across to look into it.

Who acts: John · What happens: say, cry, dash, look · To what, where: kennel · 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 (John), 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 say	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 say	nsubj
3	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 say	punct
5	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 say	punct
6	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 say	ccomp
7	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 cried	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 kennel	punct
9	“	"	PUNCT	_	11 kennel	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 kennel	det
11	kennel	kennel	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cried	obl
12	!	!	PUNCT	_	11 kennel	punct
13	”	"	PUNCT	_	11 kennel	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 dashed	cc
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 dashed	nsubj
16	dashed	dash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 cried	conj
17	across	across	ADV	_	16 dashed	advmod
18	to	to	PART	_	19 look	mark
19	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 dashed	advcl
20	into	into	ADP	_	21 it	case
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 look	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	present	John			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	cry speech: express	past	John	the kennel		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	dash	past	John		across property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	look	to-infinitive	John not said here		into kennel	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into it=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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