Peter Pan, Chapter VI. THE LITTLE HOUSE, sentence 27

“Peter!” they cried, for it was always thus that he signalled his return.

Who acts: Peter, crow · What happens: cry, signall, be

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 (Peter, crow), 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 Peter	punct
2	Peter	peter	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cried	nsubj
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Peter	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Peter	punct
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 cried	nsubj
6	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 return	punct
8	for	for	ADP	_	17 return	case
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 return	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 return	cop
11	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	12 thus	advmod
12	thus	thus	ADV	_	17 return	advmod
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 signalled	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 signalled	nsubj
15	signalled	signall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 thus	advcl
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 return	nmod:poss
17	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cried	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	Peter		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	signall	past	Peter		tree rules
3	is	past	crow	for Peter's return; thus property	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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