Peter Pan, Chapter VI. THE LITTLE HOUSE, sentence 101

“John, John,” Michael would cry, “wake up!

Who acts: John · What happens: cry, wake up · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter VI. THE LITTLE HOUSE. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (John), 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 John	punct
2	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 cry	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 John	punct
4	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 John	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 John	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 John	punct
7	Michael	Michael	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 John	conj
8	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 cry	aux
9	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 wake	punct
11	“	"	PUNCT	_	12 wake	punct
12	wake	wake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 cry	conj
13	up	up	ADP	_	12 wake	compound:prt
14	!	!	PUNCT	_	9 cry	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	would	John and John and Michael						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	wake up in a quote	infinitive	John and John and Michael not said here						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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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