Peter Pan, Chapter IV. THE FLIGHT, sentence 18

“Save him, save him!” cried Wendy, looking with horror at the cruel sea far below.

What happens: save, cry, look · To what, where: Peter · 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: 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 Save	punct
2	Save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 cried	ccomp
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 Save	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 save	punct
5	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Save	conj
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 save	obj
7	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Save	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Save	punct
9	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	Wendy	Wendy	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 cried	flat
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 looking	punct
12	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 cried	advcl
13	with	with	ADP	_	14 horror	case
14	horror	horror	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 looking	obl
15	at	at	ADP	_	18 sea	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 sea	det
17	cruel	cruel	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 sea	amod
18	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 looking	obl
19	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	20 below	advmod
20	below	below	ADV	_	12 looking	advmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	save in a quote	infinitive	Peter		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	save in a quote	infinitive	Peter		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3	cry speech: express	past			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	look	gerund		with horror; at the cruel sea; below property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at sea=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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