Peter Pan, Chapter VI. THE LITTLE HOUSE, sentence 201
“And we are your children,” cried the twins.
Who acts: we, children · What happens: be, cry · To what, where: children, twins · 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 (we, children), 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 | _ | 9 cried | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 children | cc |
| 3 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 children | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 children | cop |
| 5 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 children | nmod:poss |
| 6 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 cried | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 children | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 children | punct |
| 9 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 twins | det |
| 11 | twins | twin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 cried | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | we | your children | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | your children | the twins | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent twin=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/7/201/