Peter Pan, Chapter IV. THE FLIGHT, sentence 123

Then indeed Michael began to cry, and even John could speak in gulps only, for they knew Hook’s reputation.

Who acts: Michael, John, Hook · What happens: begin, cry, speak, know, repute · To what, where: gulps, reputation · 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 (Michael, John, Hook), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 began	advmod
2	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	4 began	advmod
3	Michael	Michael	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 began	nsubj
4	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 cry	mark
6	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 began	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 speak	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 speak	cc
9	even	even	ADV	_	12 speak	advmod
10	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 speak	nsubj
11	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 speak	aux
12	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 began	parataxis
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 gulps	case
14	gulps	gulp	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 speak	obl
15	only	only	ADV	_	14 gulps	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 knew	punct
17	for	for	SCONJ	_	19 knew	mark
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 knew	nsubj
19	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 began	parataxis
20	Hook	Hook	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 reputation	nmod:poss
21	’s	's	PART	_	20 Hook	case
22	reputation	reputation	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 knew	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	Michael			then	indeed property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	cry speech: express	to-infinitive	Michael not said here					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	speak speech: other	could	John		gulps			vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	know	past	John	Hook's reputation				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer reputation=Stimulus
5	repute		Hook					nom reputation «state transitive»: poss=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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