Peter Pan, Chapter XVI. THE RETURN HOME, sentence 142

“It’s mother!” cried Wendy, peeping.

Who acts: scoundrel, mother · What happens: be, cry, peep · To what, where: mother · 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 (scoundrel, mother), 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	_	4 mother	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 mother	nsubj
3	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 mother	cop
4	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cried	nsubj
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 mother	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 mother	punct
7	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	Wendy	Wendy	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 cried	flat
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 peeping	punct
10	peeping	peep	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 cried	advcl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	scoundrel	mother	tree rules
2	cry speech: express	past	mother		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	peep	gerund	mother not said here		vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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