Peter Pan, Chapter XVII. WHEN WENDY GREW UP, sentence 165
“I sat up in bed and I said, ‘Boy, why are you crying?’”
Who acts: Wendy, you · What happens: sit up, say, cry · To what, where: bed · 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 (Wendy, you), 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 sat | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 sat | nsubj |
| 3 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 sat | compound:prt |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 bed | case |
| 6 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sat | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 said | cc |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sat | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Boy | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ‘ | ADP | _ | 12 Boy | case |
| 12 | Boy | Boy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | ccomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 crying | punct |
| 14 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 crying | advmod |
| 15 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 crying | aux |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 crying | nsubj |
| 17 | crying | cry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 sat | advcl |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 17 crying | punct |
| 19 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 sat | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit up in a quote | past | Wendy | bed | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in bed=Location | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | Wendy | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | cry speech: express in a quote | present · progressive | you | 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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