Peter Pan, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!, sentence 215

“Oh,” cried Wendy, “to see a mermaid!”

Who acts: Wendy · What happens: cry, see · To what, where: mermaid · 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 (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	_	5 cried	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	5 cried	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
5	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	Wendy	Wendy	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 cried	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 see	punct
8	“	"	PUNCT	_	10 see	punct
9	to	to	PART	_	10 see	mark
10	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 cried	conj
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 mermaid	det
12	mermaid	mermaid	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 see	obj
13	!	!	PUNCT	_	10 see	punct
14	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	Wendy						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	see in a quote	to-infinitive	Wendy not said here	a mermaid					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mermaid=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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