Peter Pan, Chapter XV. “HOOK OR ME THIS TIME”, sentence 103

At this the children could not resist raising a cheer.

Who acts: children · What happens: not resist, raise · To what, where: cheer

This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XV. “HOOK OR ME THIS TIME”. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	At	at	ADP	_	2 this	case
2	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 children	obl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 children	det
4	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 resist	nsubj
5	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 resist	aux
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 resist	advmod
7	resist	resist	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	raising	raise	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 resist	xcomp
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 cheer	det
10	cheer	cheer	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 raising	obj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 resist	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not resist	could	the children						tree rules
2	raise	gerund	the children not said here	a cheer					vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cheer=Theme

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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