Peter Pan, Chapter IV. THE FLIGHT, sentence 206
She called to Peter and John and Michael, and got only mocking echoes in reply.
Who acts: Wendy · What happens: call, get, mock · To what, where: Peter, echoes, reply · 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 (Wendy), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 called | nsubj |
| 2 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 Peter | case |
| 4 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 called | obl |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 John | cc |
| 6 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Peter | conj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 Michael | cc |
| 8 | Michael | Michael | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Peter | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 got | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 got | cc |
| 11 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 called | conj |
| 12 | only | only | ADV | _ | 13 mocking | advmod |
| 13 | mocking | mock | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 got | advcl |
| 14 | echoes | echo | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 mocking | obj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 reply | case |
| 16 | reply | reply | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 mocking | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | past | Wendy | Peter and John and Michael | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to peter=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | get | past | Wendy not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | mock | gerund | Wendy not said here | echoes | reply | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent echo=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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