Peter Pan, Chapter VI. THE LITTLE HOUSE, sentence 202

Then all went on their knees, and holding out their arms cried, “O Wendy lady, be our mother.”

Who acts: holding · What happens: go, hold out, cry, be · To what, where: knees, arms, mother · 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 (holding), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 went	advmod
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 went	advmod
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 knees	case
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 knees	nmod:poss
6	knees	knee	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 went	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 cried	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 cried	cc
9	holding	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 cried	csubj
10	out	out	ADP	_	9 holding	compound:prt
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 arms	nmod:poss
12	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 holding	obj
13	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 lady	punct
15	“	"	PUNCT	_	18 lady	punct
16	O	of	ADP	Abbr=Yes	18 lady	case
17	Wendy	Wendy	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 lady	compound
18	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 cried	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 mother	punct
20	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 mother	cop
21	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 mother	nmod:poss
22	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 lady	conj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct
24	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past			children's knees	then		vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on knee=Location
2	hold out	gerund		children's arms				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Theme
3	cry speech: express	past	holding				of Wendy lady and our mother	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is a in a quote	infinitive	holding not said here	our mother				tree rules

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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