Peter Pan, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE, sentence 177

“Save me, save me!” cried Nibs, falling on the ground.

Who acts: Nibs · What happens: save, cry, fall · To what, where: Nibs, ground · 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 (Nibs), 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	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Save	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 save	punct
5	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Save	conj
6	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 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	Nibs	nib	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 cried	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 falling	punct
12	falling	fall	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 cried	advcl
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 ground	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 ground	det
15	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 falling	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	save in a quote	infinitive		Nibs = nib		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
2	save in a quote	infinitive		Nibs = nib		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
3	cry speech: express	past	Nibs			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	fall	gerund	Nibs not said here		the ground	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on ground=Location

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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