Peter Pan, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!, sentence 131

“O Peter,” she cried, “if she would only stand still and let me see her!”

Who acts: Peter, Wendy · What happens: cry, stand, let, see · To what, where: Peter, Wendy · 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, Wendy), 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 Peter	punct
2	O	o	INTJ	_	3 Peter	discourse
3	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 cried	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 Peter	punct
5	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 Peter	punct
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 cried	nsubj
7	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 stand	punct
9	“	"	PUNCT	_	14 stand	punct
10	if	if	SCONJ	_	14 stand	mark
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 stand	nsubj
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 stand	aux
13	only	only	ADV	_	14 stand	advmod
14	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 cried	ccomp
15	still	still	ADV	_	14 stand	advmod
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 let	cc
17	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 stand	conj
18	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 let	obj
19	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 let	xcomp
20	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 see	obj
21	!	!	PUNCT	_	14 stand	punct
22	”	"	PUNCT	_	14 stand	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	Peter			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	stand a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	would	Wendy		still	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	let in a quote	infinitive	Wendy not said here	Peter		tree rules
4	see in a quote	infinitive	Peter not said here	Wendy		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus

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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