Peter Pan, Chapter VI. THE LITTLE HOUSE, sentence 31

“Greetings, boys,” he cried, and mechanically they saluted, and then again was silence.

Who acts: Greetings · What happens: cry, salute, be · To what, where: silence

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 (Greetings), 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 Greetings	punct
2	Greetings	greeting	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 cried	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 boys	punct
4	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 Greetings	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Greetings	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Greetings	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 cried	nsubj
8	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 saluted	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 saluted	cc
11	mechanically	mechanically	ADV	_	13 saluted	advmod
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 saluted	nsubj
13	saluted	salute	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 cried	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 silence	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 silence	cc
16	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 again	advmod
17	again	again	ADV	_	19 silence	advmod
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 silence	cop
19	silence	silence	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cried	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	Greetings and boys				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	salute	past	Greetings = greeting			mechanically property	vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a	past		silence	again		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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