Peter Pan, Chapter IV. THE FLIGHT, sentence 162

“Tell her to go away at once, Peter,” the three cried simultaneously, but he refused.

Who acts: Peter, three · What happens: tell, go away, cry, refuse · To what, where: Peter, Tom · 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 (Peter, three), 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 Tell	punct
2	Tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 cried	ccomp
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 Tell	iobj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 go	mark
5	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Tell	xcomp
6	away	away	ADV	_	5 go	advmod
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 once	case
8	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	5 go	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 Peter	punct
10	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Tell	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Tell	punct
12	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Tell	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 three	det
14	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 cried	nsubj
15	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	simultaneously	simultaneously	ADV	_	15 cried	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 refused	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 refused	cc
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 refused	nsubj
20	refused	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 cried	conj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert in a quote	infinitive		Peter	Tom		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
2	go away not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	Peter not said here			away property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at once=Location
3	cry speech: express	past	the three			simultaneously property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	refuse	past	Peter				vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: 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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