Peter Pan, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, sentence 73

“Set her free,” came the astonishing answer.

What happens: set, come · To what, where: free, astonishing answer · 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	_	2 Set	punct
2	Set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 came	ccomp
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 free	nmod:poss
4	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Set	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Set	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Set	punct
7	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 answer	det
9	astonishing	astonishing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 answer	amod
10	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 came	obj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	set in a quote	infinitive		Starkey's free					vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient free=Result
2	come	past		the astonishing answer					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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