Peter Pan, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!, sentence 23
“Boy,” she said courteously, “why are you crying?”
Who acts: Boy, you · What happens: say, cry · 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 (Boy, you), 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 Boy | punct |
| 2 | Boy | Boy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Boy | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Boy | punct |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 said | nsubj |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | courteously | courteously | ADV | _ | 6 said | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 crying | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 crying | punct |
| 10 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 crying | advmod |
| 11 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 crying | aux |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 crying | nsubj |
| 13 | crying | cry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 said | advcl |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 13 crying | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 crying | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask | past | Boy | courteously property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express in a quote | present · progressive | you | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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