Peter Pan, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!, sentence 246
Quick!” cried John, taking command for the only time throughout the whole adventure.
Who acts: John · What happens: cry, take · To what, where: command
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 (John), 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 | Quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 cried | advcl |
| 2 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Quick | punct |
| 3 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Quick | punct |
| 4 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 cried | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 taking | punct |
| 7 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 cried | advcl |
| 8 | command | command | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 taking | obj |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 time | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 time | det |
| 11 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 time | amod |
| 12 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 taking | obl |
| 13 | throughout | throughout | ADP | _ | 16 adventure | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 adventure | det |
| 15 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 adventure | amod |
| 16 | adventure | adventure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 taking | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express in a quote | past | John | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | take in a quote | gerund | John not said here | command | throughout the whole adventure; time | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent command=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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