Peter Pan, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE, sentence 194

“See, it comes!” cried Curly, pointing to Wendy in the heavens.

Who acts: bird, Curly · What happens: see, come, cry, point · To what, where: Wendy, heavens · 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 (bird, Curly), 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 See	punct
2	See	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 cried	ccomp
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 comes	punct
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 comes	nsubj
5	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 See	ccomp
6	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 See	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 See	punct
8	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	Curly	Curly	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 cried	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 pointing	punct
11	pointing	point	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 cried	advcl
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 Wendy	case
13	Wendy	Wendy	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 pointing	obl
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 heavens	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 heavens	det
16	heavens	heaven	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 pointing	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	roles by
1	see in a quote	infinitive				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	come in a quote	present	bird			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	cry speech: express	past	Curly			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	point	gerund	Curly not said here	Wendy	the heavens	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to wendy=Recipient

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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