Peter Pan, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, sentence 106

Peter pulled her beneath the water, for Hook had started up, crying, “What was that?”

Who acts: Peter, Hook · What happens: pull, start up, cry, be · To what, where: Wendy, that · 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 (Peter, 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	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 pulled	nsubj
2	pulled	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 pulled	obj
4	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	6 water	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 water	det
6	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pulled	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 started	punct
8	for	for	SCONJ	_	11 started	mark
9	Hook	Hook	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 started	nsubj
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 started	aux
11	started	start	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 pulled	conj
12	up	up	ADP	_	11 started	compound:prt
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 crying	punct
14	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 started	advcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 that	punct
16	“	"	PUNCT	_	19 that	punct
17	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	19 that	obj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 that	cop
19	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 pulled	obl
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 pulled	punct
21	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 pulled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	pull	past	Peter	Wendy	beneath the water	vn push-12-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: agent=Agent she=Result
2	start up	past · perfect	Hook			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	cry speech: express	gerund	Hook not said here			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is a in a quote	past		that		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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