Peter Pan, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE, sentence 201
“Let us do what Peter wishes!” cried the simple boys.
Who acts: us, Peter, simple boys · What happens: let, do, wish, cry · To what, where: us · 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 (us, Peter, simple boys), 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 Let | punct |
| 2 | Let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 cried | ccomp |
| 3 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Let | obj |
| 4 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Let | xcomp |
| 5 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 wishes | obj |
| 6 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 wishes | nsubj |
| 7 | wishes | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 do | acl:relcl |
| 8 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Let | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Let | punct |
| 10 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 boys | det |
| 12 | simple | simple | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 boys | amod |
| 13 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 cried | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let in a quote | infinitive | us | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | do in a quote | infinitive | us not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | wish in a quote | present | Peter | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme | |||||
| 4 | cry speech: express | past | the simple boys | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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