Peter Pan, Chapter II. THE SHADOW, sentence 123

“Father, I am waiting,” said Michael coldly.

Who acts: Michael · What happens: wait, say · 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 (Michael), 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 Father	punct
2	Father	Father	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 waiting	vocative
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Father	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 waiting	nsubj
5	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 waiting	aux
6	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 said	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 waiting	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 waiting	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	Michael	Michael	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
11	coldly	coldly	ADV	_	9 said	advmod
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait in a quote	present · progressive	Michael					Father vocative	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	Michael					coldly property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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