Peter Pan, Chapter XVII. WHEN WENDY GREW UP, sentence 164

“When you saw him sitting on the floor crying, what did you say?”

Who acts: you, Wendy · What happens: see, sit, cry, say · To what, where: Wendy, floor · 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 (you, Wendy), 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 saw	punct
2	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 saw	advmod
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 saw	nsubj
4	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 saw	obj
6	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 saw	xcomp
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 floor	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 floor	det
9	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sitting	obl
10	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 sitting	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 say	punct
12	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 say	obj
13	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 say	aux
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 say	nsubj
15	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 crying	ccomp
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 saw	punct
17	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	see in a quote	past	you	Wendy		tree rules
2	sit in a quote	gerund	Wendy not said here		the floor	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on floor=Location
3	cry speech: express in a quote	gerund	Wendy not said here			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	say speech: assert in a quote	past · do-support	you			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

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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