Peter Pan, Chapter XVII. WHEN WENDY GREW UP, sentence 195

“John is not here now,” she gasped.

Who acts: John, Jane · What happens: not be, gasp

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, Jane), 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	_	5 here	punct
2	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 here	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 here	cop
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 here	advmod
5	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	root	root
6	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 here	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 here	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 here	punct
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 gasped	nsubj
10	gasped	gasp	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 here	acl:relcl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 here	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is in a quote	present	John				now	here property	tree rules
2	gasp	past	Jane						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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