Peter Pan, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, sentence 195

“Can’t guess, can’t guess!” crowed Peter.

What happens: not guess, crow · To what, where: Peter · 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: 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 guess	punct
2	Ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 guess	aux
3	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 guess	advmod
4	guess	guess	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 crowed	ccomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 guess	punct
6	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 guess	aux
7	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 guess	advmod
8	guess	guess	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 guess	conj
9	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 guess	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 guess	punct
11	crowed	crow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 crowed	obj
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 crowed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	roles by
1	not guess in a quote	can		vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	not guess in a quote	can		vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	crow	past	Peter	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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