Peter Pan, Chapter VI. THE LITTLE HOUSE, sentence 36
“Great news, boys,” he cried, “I have brought at last a mother for you all.”
Who acts: Great news · What happens: cry, bring · 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 (Great news), 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 | _ | 3 news | punct |
| 2 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 news | amod |
| 3 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cried | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 boys | punct |
| 5 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 news | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 news | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 news | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 cried | nsubj |
| 9 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 brought | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 brought | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 brought | nsubj |
| 13 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 brought | aux |
| 14 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 cried | conj |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 mother | case |
| 16 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 mother | amod |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 mother | det |
| 18 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 brought | obl |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 you | case |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 mother | nmod |
| 21 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 you | nmod:unmarked |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 cried | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | Great news and boys | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | bring in a quote | present · perfect | Great news and boys = news | at a last mother for you | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent |
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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