Peter Pan, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE, sentence 181

Almost in the same breath they cried, “Peter would look at them through his legs.”

Who acts: tongues, Peter · What happens: cry, look · To what, where: same breath, legs · 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 (tongues, Peter), 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	Almost	almost	ADV	_	5 breath	advmod
2	in	in	ADP	_	5 breath	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 breath	det
4	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 breath	amod
5	breath	breath	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cried	obl
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 cried	nsubj
7	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 look	punct
9	“	"	PUNCT	_	12 look	punct
10	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 look	nsubj
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 look	aux
12	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 cried	conj
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 them	case
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 look	obl
15	through	through	ADP	_	17 legs	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 legs	nmod:poss
17	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 look	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 cried	punct
19	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	tongues = tongue			the same breath			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in breath=Location
2	look in a quote	would	Peter			Peter's legs		at tongues = tongue	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at they=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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