Peter Pan, Chapter XVI. THE RETURN HOME, sentence 61

Crowds followed the cab, cheering it lustily; charming girls scaled it to get his autograph; interviews appeared in the better class of papers, and society invited him to dinner and added, “Do come in the kennel.”

Who acts: Crowds, charming girls, interviews, society, heart · What happens: follow, cheer, charm, scale, get, appear · To what, where: cab, autograph, better class, heart, kennel · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XVI. THE RETURN HOME. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Crowds, charming girls, interviews, society), 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	Crowds	crowd	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 followed	nsubj
2	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cab	det
4	cab	cab	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 followed	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 cheering	punct
6	cheering	cheer	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 followed	advcl
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 cheering	obj
8	lustily	lustily	ADV	_	6 cheering	advmod
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 scaled	punct
10	charming	charm	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 girls	amod
11	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 scaled	nsubj
12	scaled	scale	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 followed	conj
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 scaled	obj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 get	mark
15	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 scaled	advcl
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 autograph	nmod:poss
17	autograph	autograph	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 get	obj
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 appeared	punct
19	interviews	interview	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 appeared	nsubj
20	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 followed	parataxis
21	in	in	ADP	_	24 class	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 class	det
23	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	24 class	amod
24	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 appeared	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 papers	case
26	papers	paper	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 class	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 invited	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 invited	cc
29	society	society	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 invited	nsubj
30	invited	invite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 appeared	conj
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 invited	obj
32	to	to	ADP	_	33 dinner	case
33	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 invited	obl
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 added	cc
35	added	add	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 appeared	conj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 come	punct
37	“	"	PUNCT	_	39 come	punct
38	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	39 come	aux
39	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 added	ccomp
40	in	in	ADP	_	42 kennel	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 kennel	det
42	kennel	kennel	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 come	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 followed	punct
44	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 followed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	follow	past	Crowds	the cab				vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cab=Theme
2	cheer	gerund	Crowds not said here	cab			lustily property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus it=Experiencer
3	charm	gerund						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
4	scale	past	charming girls	cab				vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Source
5	get	to-infinitive	charming girls not said here	heart's autograph				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer autograph=Stimulus
6	appear	past	interviews			the better class of papers		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in class=Location
7	invite	past	society		heart		to dinner	vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
8	add speech: assert	past	interviews not said here					vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
9	come in a quote	infinitive · do-support				the kennel		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in kennel=Location
10	autograph		heart					nom autograph «communication transitive»: poss=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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