Peter Pan, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE, sentence 187

“I have seen a wonderfuller thing,” he cried, as they gathered round him eagerly.

Who acts: victory, wolves · What happens: see, cry, gather · To what, where: wonderfuller thing · 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 (victory, wolves), 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	_	4 seen	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 seen	nsubj
3	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 seen	aux
4	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 cried	advcl
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 thing	det
6	wonderfuller	wonderfull	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 thing	amod
7	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 seen	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 seen	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 seen	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 cried	nsubj
11	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 gathered	punct
13	as	as	SCONJ	_	15 gathered	mark
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 gathered	nsubj
15	gathered	gather	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 cried	conj
16	round	round	ADP	_	17 him	case
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 gathered	obl
18	eagerly	eagerly	ADV	_	15 gathered	advmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	see in a quote	present · perfect	victory	a wonderfuller thing		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus
2	cry speech: express	past	victory			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	gather	past	wolves = wolf		round victory; eagerly property	vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=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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