Peter Pan, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!, sentence 272
“How topping!” said John and Michael.
Who acts: John · What happens: top, say · 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 (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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 topping | punct |
| 2 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 topping | advmod |
| 3 | topping | top | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 said | ccomp |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 topping | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 topping | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 Michael | cc |
| 9 | Michael | Michael | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 John | conj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | top in a quote | gerund | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | say speech: express | past | John and Michael | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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