Peter Pan, Chapter IV. THE FLIGHT, sentence 170

“Then tell her to sleep at once,” John almost ordered.

Who acts: you, John · What happens: tell, sleep, order · To what, where: Wendy · 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 (you, 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	3 tell	punct
2	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 tell	advmod
3	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 tell	iobj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 sleep	mark
6	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 tell	xcomp
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 once	case
8	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	6 sleep	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 tell	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 tell	punct
11	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 ordered	nsubj
12	almost	almost	ADV	_	13 ordered	advmod
13	ordered	order	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 tell	advcl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert in a quote	imperative	you not said here	Wendy	then		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
2	sleep not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	you not said here				vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	order	past	John			almost property	vn order-58.3-1 «NP V S»: 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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