Peter Pan, Chapter XVII. WHEN WENDY GREW UP, sentence 194

“Hullo, where is John?” he asked, suddenly missing the third bed.

Who acts: John · What happens: be, ask, miss · To what, where: John, third 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 (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	_	10 asked	punct
2	Hullo	hullo	INTJ	_	6 John	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 John	punct
4	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	6 John	advmod
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 John	cop
6	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 asked	nsubj
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 John	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 John	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 asked	nsubj
10	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 missing	punct
12	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	13 missing	advmod
13	missing	miss	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 asked	advcl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 bed	det
15	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	16 bed	amod
16	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 missing	obj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present		John		tree rules
2	ask speech: ask	past	John			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	miss	gerund	John not said here	the third bed	suddenly property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bed=Stimulus

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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