Peter Pan, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE, sentence 195

Wendy was now almost overhead, and they could hear her plaintive cry.

Who acts: Wendy, heavens · What happens: be, hear, cry · To what, where: plaintive cry

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 (Wendy, heavens), 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	Wendy	Wendy	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 overhead	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 overhead	cop
3	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 overhead	advmod
4	almost	almost	ADV	_	5 overhead	advmod
5	overhead	overhead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 hear	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 hear	cc
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 hear	nsubj
9	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 hear	aux
10	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 overhead	conj
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 cry	nmod:poss
12	plaintive	plaintive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 cry	amod
13	cry	cry	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 hear	obj
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 overhead	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Wendy		now	almost, overhead property	tree rules
2	hear	could	heavens = heaven	Wendy's plaintive cry			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer cry=Stimulus
3	cry		Wendy				nom cry «communication intransitive»: poss=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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