Peter Pan, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, sentence 198

“Yes, yes,” they answered eagerly.

Who acts: miscreants · What happens: answer

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 (miscreants), 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	_	8 answered	punct
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	8 answered	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Yes	punct
4	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	2 Yes	discourse
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Yes	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Yes	punct
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 answered	nsubj
8	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	eagerly	eagerly	ADV	_	8 answered	advmod
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	miscreants = miscreant					eagerly property	vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: 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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