Peter Pan, Chapter XVI. THE RETURN HOME, sentence 77
Outside, the crowd who had accompanied the cab home were still cheering, and he was naturally not unmoved.
Who acts: crowd, Nana · What happens: accompany, cheer, not be · To what, where: cab home
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 (crowd, Nana), 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 | Outside | outside | ADV | _ | 13 cheering | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Outside | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 crowd | det |
| 4 | crowd | crowd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 cheering | nsubj |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 accompanied | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 accompanied | aux |
| 7 | accompanied | accompany | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 crowd | acl:relcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 home | det |
| 9 | cab | cab | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 home | compound |
| 10 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 accompanied | obj |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 cheering | aux |
| 12 | still | still | ADV | _ | 13 cheering | advmod |
| 13 | cheering | cheer | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 unmoved | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 unmoved | cc |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 unmoved | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 unmoved | cop |
| 18 | naturally | naturally | ADV | _ | 20 unmoved | advmod |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 unmoved | advmod |
| 20 | unmoved | unmoved | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 cheering | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 cheering | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | accompany | past · perfect | the crowd | the cab home | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=Theme | ||||
| 2 | cheer | past · progressive | the crowd | still | outside property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 3 | not is | past | Nana | naturally, unmoved property | 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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