Peter Pan, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!, sentence 300

“I say,” cried John, “why shouldn’t we all go out?”

Who acts: John, we · What happens: say, cry, not go out · 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, we), 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 say	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 say	nsubj
3	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 cried	parataxis
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 say	punct
5	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 say	punct
6	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 cried	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 go	punct
9	“	"	PUNCT	_	15 go	punct
10	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	15 go	advmod
11	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 go	aux
12	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 go	advmod
13	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 go	nsubj
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 we	det
15	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 cried	parataxis
16	out	out	ADP	_	15 go	compound:prt
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	15 go	punct
18	”	"	PUNCT	_	15 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	present	John	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	cry speech: express	past	John	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not go out in a quote	should	we	vn interact-36.6 «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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