Peter Pan, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, sentence 100

“The game’s up,” he cried, “those boys have found a mother.”

Who acts: Hook · What happens: cry, find · To what, where: boys · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hook), 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	_	4 ’s	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 game	det
3	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ’s	nsubj
4	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 cried	parataxis
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 ’s	compound:prt
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 ’s	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 ’s	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	_	15 found	punct
11	“	"	PUNCT	_	15 found	punct
12	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	13 boys	det
13	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 found	nsubj:pass
14	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 found	aux
15	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 cried	conj
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 mother	det
17	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 found	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 cried	punct
19	”	"	PUNCT	_	9 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	Hook						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	find in a quote	present · perfect · passive		that boys					vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme mother=Attribute

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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