Peter Pan, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE, sentence 165

“It’s the wickedest, prettiest policy ever I heard of!” he cried, and in their exultation they danced and sang:

Who acts: admiration, I, boys · What happens: be, hear, cry, dance, sing, exult · To what, where: prettiest policy, exultation · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (admiration, I, boys), 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	_	5 wickedest	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 wickedest	nsubj
3	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 wickedest	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 wickedest	det
5	wickedest	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Sup	16 cried	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 policy	punct
7	prettiest	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Sup	8 policy	amod
8	policy	policy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wickedest	appos
9	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	8 policy	advmod
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 heard	nsubj
11	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 policy	acl:relcl
12	of	of	ADP	_	11 heard	obl
13	!	!	PUNCT	_	8 policy	punct
14	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 wickedest	punct
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 cried	nsubj
16	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 danced	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 danced	cc
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 exultation	case
20	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 exultation	nmod:poss
21	exultation	exultation	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 danced	obl
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 danced	nsubj
23	danced	dance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 cried	conj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 sang	cc
25	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 danced	conj
26	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	admiration			wicked property	tree rules
2	hear in a quote	past	I	prettiest policy not said here			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer policy=Stimulus
3	cry speech: express	past					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	dance	past	boys = boy		boys's exultation		vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in exultation=Location
5	sing speech: express	past	boys = boy not said here				vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	exult		boys = boy				nom exultation «feeling intransitive»: poss=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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