Peter Pan, Chapter XVII. WHEN WENDY GREW UP, sentence 109

Michael came close to her and whispered, with a shiver, “Perhaps there is no such person, Wendy!” and then Wendy would have cried if Michael had not been crying.

Who acts: Michael · What happens: come, whisper, be, cry, not cry · To what, where: lot, shiver, such person, Wendy · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XVII. WHEN WENDY GREW UP. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Michael), 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	Michael	Michael	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 came	nsubj
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	close	close	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 came	advmod
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 her	case
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 came	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 whispered	cc
7	whispered	whisper	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 came	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 shiver	punct
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 shiver	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 shiver	det
11	shiver	shiver	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 whispered	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 person	punct
13	“	"	PUNCT	_	19 person	punct
14	Perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	16 is	advmod
15	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	16 is	expl
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 person	cop
17	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	19 person	det
18	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 person	amod
19	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 shiver	appos
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 Wendy	punct
21	Wendy	Wendy	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 person	appos
22	!	!	PUNCT	_	21 Wendy	punct
23	”	"	PUNCT	_	19 person	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 cried	cc
25	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	29 cried	advmod
26	Wendy	Wendy	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 cried	nsubj:pass
27	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 cried	aux
28	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 cried	aux
29	cried	cry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 whispered	conj
30	if	if	SCONJ	_	35 crying	mark
31	Michael	Michael	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 crying	nsubj
32	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 crying	aux
33	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	35 crying	advmod
34	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	35 crying	aux
35	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 cried	advcl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	Michael		lot		close property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to she=Initial_Location
2	whisper speech: express	past	Michael not said here	a shiver				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shiver=Topic
3	is a in a quote	present		no such person				tree rules
4	cry speech: express	would · perfect · passive		Wendy		then		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
5	not cry speech: express a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect · progressive	Michael					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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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