Peter Pan, Chapter I. PETER BREAKS THROUGH, sentence 109

“My child,” the mother cried, “why did you not tell me of this before?”

Who acts: child, you · What happens: cry, not tell · To what, where: child · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter I. PETER BREAKS THROUGH. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (child, 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 child	punct
2	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 child	nmod:poss
3	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cried	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 child	punct
5	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 child	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 mother	det
7	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cried	nsubj
8	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 tell	punct
10	“	"	PUNCT	_	15 tell	punct
11	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	15 tell	advmod
12	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 tell	aux
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 tell	nsubj
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 tell	advmod
15	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 cried	ccomp
16	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 tell	iobj
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 this	case
18	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 tell	obl
19	before	before	ADV	_	15 tell	advmod
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	15 tell	punct
21	”	"	PUNCT	_	15 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	My child						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not tell speech: assert in a quote	past · do-support	you		My child = child			of this; before property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient

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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