Peter Pan, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!, sentence 307

“Pirates,” cried John, seizing his Sunday hat, “let us go at once.”

Who acts: Pirates, us · What happens: cry, seize, let, go · To what, where: Sunday hat, us · 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 (Pirates, us), 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 Pirates	punct
2	Pirates	pirate	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 cried	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Pirates	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Pirates	punct
5	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 cried	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 seizing	punct
8	seizing	seize	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 cried	advcl
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 hat	nmod:poss
10	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 hat	compound
11	hat	hat	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 seizing	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 let	punct
13	“	"	PUNCT	_	14 let	punct
14	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 cried	parataxis
15	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 let	obj
16	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 let	xcomp
17	at	at	ADP	_	18 once	case
18	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	16 go	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 let	punct
20	”	"	PUNCT	_	14 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	Pirates		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	seize	gerund	Pirates not said here	John's Sunday hat	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hat=Theme
3	let in a quote	infinitive		us	tree rules
4	go in a quote	infinitive	us not said here		vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at once=Location

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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