Peter Pan, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!, sentence 199

“Oh, the stories I could tell to the boys!” she cried, and then Peter gripped her and began to draw her toward the window.

Who acts: stories, Wendy, Peter · What happens: tell, cry, grip, begin, draw · To what, where: boys, 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 (stories, Wendy, Peter), 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	_	8 tell	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	8 tell	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 stories	det
5	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 tell	nsubj
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 tell	nsubj
7	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 tell	aux
8	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 cried	ccomp
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 boys	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 boys	det
11	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 tell	obl
12	!	!	PUNCT	_	8 tell	punct
13	”	"	PUNCT	_	8 tell	punct
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 cried	nsubj
15	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 gripped	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 gripped	cc
18	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 gripped	advmod
19	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 gripped	nsubj
20	gripped	grip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 cried	parataxis
21	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 gripped	obj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 began	cc
23	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 gripped	conj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 draw	mark
25	draw	draw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 began	xcomp
26	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 draw	obj
27	toward	toward	ADP	_	29 window	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 window	det
29	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 draw	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert in a quote	could	the stories		the boys			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent to boy=Recipient
2	cry speech: express	past	Wendy					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	grip	past	Peter	Wendy		then		vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Experiencer
4	begin	past	Peter not said here					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	draw	to-infinitive	Peter not said here	Wendy			toward the window	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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.

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