Peter Pan, Chapter XII. THE CHILDREN ARE CARRIED OFF, sentence 68

The doomed children answered with a cheer that was music to the black hearts above, and almost immediately they repeated their good-byes to Peter.

Who acts: that, doomed children · What happens: doom, answer, be, repeat · To what, where: doomed children, music, good byes, Peter

This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XII. THE CHILDREN ARE CARRIED OFF. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (that, doomed children), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 children	det
2	doomed	doom	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 children	amod
3	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 repeated	nsubj
4	answered	answer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 children	acl
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 cheer	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 cheer	det
7	cheer	cheer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 answered	obl
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 music	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 music	cop
10	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cheer	conj
11	to	to	ADP	_	14 hearts	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 hearts	det
13	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 hearts	amod
14	hearts	heart	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 music	nmod
15	above	above	ADV	_	14 hearts	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 repeated	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 repeated	cc
18	almost	almost	ADV	_	19 immediately	advmod
19	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	21 repeated	advmod
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 repeated	nsubj
21	repeated	repeat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
22	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 byes	nmod:poss
23	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 byes	amod
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 good	punct
25	byes	by	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 repeated	obj
26	to	to	ADP	_	27 Peter	case
27	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 repeated	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 repeated	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	doom	participle					tree rules
2	answer speech: assert	participle		the doomed children not said here		with a cheer and music	vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a	past	that	music		to the black hearts	tree rules
4	repeat	past	the doomed children	children's good byes	Peter	immediately property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent by=Topic to peter=Recipient

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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