Peter Pan, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!, sentence 321
“Come,” he cried imperiously, and soared out at once into the night, followed by John and Michael and Wendy.
Who acts: Peter · What happens: come, cry, soar out, follow · 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 (Peter), 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 Come | punct |
| 2 | Come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 cried | parataxis |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Come | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Come | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 cried | nsubj |
| 6 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | imperiously | imperiously | ADV | _ | 6 cried | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 soared | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 soared | cc |
| 10 | soared | soar | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 cried | conj |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 soared | compound:prt |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 once | case |
| 13 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 10 soared | obl |
| 14 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 night | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 night | det |
| 16 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 soared | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 followed | punct |
| 18 | followed | follow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 soared | parataxis |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 John | case |
| 20 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 followed | obl:agent |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 Michael | cc |
| 22 | Michael | Michael | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 John | conj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 Wendy | cc |
| 24 | Wendy | Wendy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 John | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in a quote | infinitive | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | Peter | imperiously property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | soar out | past | Peter not said here | night | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme at once=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | follow | participle | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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