Peter Pan, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE, sentence 180

“What would Peter do?” they cried simultaneously.

Who acts: Peter, tongues · What happens: do, cry · 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 (Peter, tongues), 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 do	punct
2	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 do	obj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 do	aux
4	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 do	nsubj
5	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 do	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 do	punct
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 cried	nsubj
9	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 do	conj
10	simultaneously	simultaneously	ADV	_	9 cried	advmod
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 do	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do in a quote	would	Peter						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
2	cry speech: express	past	tongues = tongue					simultaneously property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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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