Peter Pan, Chapter IV. THE FLIGHT, sentence 17

“There he goes again!” he would cry gleefully, as Michael suddenly dropped like a stone.

Who acts: Peter, Michael · What happens: go, cry, drop · 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, Michael), 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	_	4 goes	punct
2	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	4 goes	expl
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 goes	nsubj
4	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 cry	advcl
5	again	again	ADV	_	4 goes	advmod
6	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 goes	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 goes	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 cry	nsubj
9	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 cry	aux
10	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	gleefully	gleefully	ADV	_	10 cry	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 dropped	punct
13	as	as	SCONJ	_	16 dropped	mark
14	Michael	Michael	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 dropped	nsubj
15	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	16 dropped	advmod
16	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 cry	parataxis
17	like	like	ADP	_	19 stone	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 stone	det
19	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 dropped	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 cry	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	go in a quote	present	Peter	there	again		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	cry speech: express	would	Peter			gleefully property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	drop	past	Michael			like a stone; suddenly property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme 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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