Peter Pan, Chapter II. THE SHADOW, sentence 116

“Hold your tongue, John,” his father rapped out.

Who acts: father · What happens: hold, rap out · To what, where: tongue · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter II. THE SHADOW. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father), 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	_	2 Hold	punct
2	Hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 rapped	ccomp
3	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 tongue	nmod:poss
4	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Hold	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 John	punct
6	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Hold	vocative
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Hold	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Hold	punct
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 father	nmod:poss
10	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 rapped	nsubj
11	rapped	rap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	out	out	ADP	_	11 rapped	compound:prt
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 rapped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold in a quote	infinitive	father's father not said here	your tongue				John vocative	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tongue=Theme
2	rap out	past	father's father						tree rules

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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