Peter Pan, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!, sentence 51
“I wasn’t crying about mothers,” he said rather indignantly.
Who acts: Peter · What happens: not cry, 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 (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 | _ | 5 crying | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 crying | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 crying | aux |
| 4 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 crying | advmod |
| 5 | crying | cry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 said | ccomp |
| 6 | about | about | ADP | _ | 7 mothers | case |
| 7 | mothers | mother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 crying | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 crying | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 crying | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 said | nsubj |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 13 indignantly | advmod |
| 13 | indignantly | indignantly | ADV | _ | 11 said | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not cry speech: express in a quote | past · progressive | Peter | about mothers | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about mother=Topic | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Peter | indignantly property | 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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