Peter Pan, Chapter VI. THE LITTLE HOUSE, sentence 64
Slightly cried instantly, “The Wendy lady lives.”
Who acts: Wendy lady · What happens: cry, live · 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 (Wendy lady), 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 | Slightly | slightly | ADV | _ | 2 cried | advmod |
| 2 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | instantly | instantly | ADV | _ | 2 cried | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 lives | punct |
| 5 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 lives | punct |
| 6 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 lady | det |
| 7 | Wendy | Wendy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 lady | compound |
| 8 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lives | nsubj |
| 9 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 cried | conj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 lives | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 lives | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | instantly, slightly property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | live in a quote | present | the Wendy lady | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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