Peter Pan, Chapter IV. THE FLIGHT, sentence 186
“If only something would make a sound!” he cried.
Who acts: something, sound · What happens: make, cry · To what, where: sound · 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 (something, sound), 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 | _ | 6 make | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 make | mark |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 4 something | advmod |
| 4 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 6 make | nsubj |
| 5 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 make | aux |
| 6 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 cried | parataxis |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 sound | det |
| 8 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 make | obj |
| 9 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 make | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 make | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 cried | nsubj |
| 12 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | would | something | a sound | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material sound=Product | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | sound | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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