Peter Pan, Chapter XVII. WHEN WENDY GREW UP, sentence 28
“Then follow the leader,” he cried gaily.
Who acts: Rather · What happens: follow, cry · To what, where: leader · 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 (Rather), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg16:2289): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 follow | punct |
| 2 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 follow | advmod |
| 3 | follow | follow | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 9 cried | ccomp |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 leader | det |
| 5 | leader | leader | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 follow | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 follow | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 follow | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 cried | nsubj |
| 9 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | gaily | gaily | ADV | _ | 9 cried | advmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow in a quote | infinitive | the leader | then | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leader=Theme | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | Rather | gaily property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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