Peter Pan, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!, sentence 117

“Peter,” she cried, clutching him, “you don’t mean to tell me that there is a fairy in this room!”

Who acts: Peter, you, fairy · What happens: cry, clutch, not mean, tell, be · To what, where: Peter, room · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Peter, you, fairy), 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 Peter	punct
2	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 cried	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Peter	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Peter	punct
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 cried	nsubj
6	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 clutching	punct
8	clutching	clutch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 cried	advcl
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 clutching	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 mean	punct
11	“	"	PUNCT	_	15 mean	punct
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 mean	nsubj
13	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 mean	aux
14	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 mean	advmod
15	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 cried	conj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 tell	mark
17	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 mean	xcomp
18	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 tell	iobj
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 is	mark
20	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	21 is	expl
21	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 tell	advcl
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 fairy	det
23	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 is	nsubj
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 room	case
25	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	26 room	det
26	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 tell	obl
27	!	!	PUNCT	_	15 mean	punct
28	”	"	PUNCT	_	15 mean	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	Peter				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	clutch	gerund	Peter not said here	Peter			vn hold-15.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3	not mean in a quote	present · do-support	you				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	tell speech: assert not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	you not said here		Peter	this room	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
5	be in a quote	present	a fairy			there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/4/117/