Peter Pan, Chapter IX. THE NEVER BIRD, sentence 2

He was too far away to hear their doors shut; but every door in the coral caves where they live rings a tiny bell when it opens or closes (as in all the nicest houses on the mainland), and he heard the bells.

Who acts: sound, doors, bell · What happens: be, hear, live, open, close · To what, where: doors, rings, nicest houses, mainland, bells

This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter IX. THE NEVER BIRD. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sound, doors, bell), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 away	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 away	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 far	advmod
4	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 away	advmod
5	away	away	ADV	_	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 hear	mark
7	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 away	advcl
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 doors	nmod:poss
9	doors	door	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 hear	obj
10	shut	shut	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 hear	xcomp
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 where	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 where	cc
13	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	14 door	det
14	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 where	nsubj
15	in	in	ADP	_	18 caves	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 caves	det
17	coral	coral	NOUN	_	18 caves	compound
18	caves	cave	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 door	nmod
19	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	21 live	advmod
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 live	nsubj
21	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 away	parataxis
22	rings	ring	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 live	obj
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 bell	det
24	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 bell	amod
25	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 live	obl:unmarked
26	when	when	SCONJ	_	28 opens	mark
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 opens	nsubj
28	opens	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 live	advcl
29	or	or	CCONJ	_	30 closes	cc
30	closes	close	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 opens	conj
31	(	(	PUNCT	_	37 houses	punct
32	as	as	ADP	_	37 houses	case
33	in	in	ADP	_	37 houses	case
34	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	37 houses	det:predet
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 houses	det
36	nicest	nice	ADJ	Degree=Sup	37 houses	amod
37	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 closes	obj
38	on	on	ADP	_	40 mainland	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 mainland	det
40	mainland	mainland	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 houses	nmod
41	)	)	PUNCT	_	37 houses	punct
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 heard	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 heard	cc
44	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 heard	nsubj
45	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 opens	conj
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 bells	det
47	bells	bell	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 heard	obj
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 away	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	sound			away, far property	tree rules
2	hear	to-infinitive	sound not said here	mermaids's doors		shut property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer door=Stimulus
3	live	present	doors = door	rings		a tiny bell obl:unmarked	vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme ring=Location
4	open	present	bell				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	close	present	bell not said here	all nicest houses	the mainland		vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Patient
6	hear	past	sound	the bells			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer bell=Stimulus

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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