Peter Pan, Chapter IV. THE FLIGHT, sentence 102

Wendy said “tea first” quickly, and Michael pressed her hand in gratitude, but the braver John hesitated.

Who acts: Wendy, Michael, braver John · What happens: say, press, hesitate · To what, where: tea, hand, gratitude · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter IV. THE FLIGHT. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wendy, Michael, braver 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	Wendy	Wendy	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	“	"	PUNCT	_	4 tea	punct
4	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 said	obj
5	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 tea	advmod
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 tea	punct
7	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	2 said	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 pressed	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 pressed	cc
10	Michael	Michael	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 pressed	nsubj
11	pressed	press	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 said	parataxis
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 hand	nmod:poss
13	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 pressed	obj
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 gratitude	case
15	gratitude	gratitude	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 pressed	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 hesitated	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 hesitated	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 John	det
19	braver	brave	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	20 John	amod
20	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 hesitated	nsubj
21	hesitated	hesitate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 pressed	conj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Wendy	tea		quickly property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent tea=Topic
2	press	past	Michael	Wendy's hand	gratitude		vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme
3	hesitate	past	the braver John				vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: 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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