Peter Pan, Chapter VI. THE LITTLE HOUSE, sentence 34

They opened their mouths, but the cheers would not come.

Who acts: Tootles, cheers · What happens: open, not come · To what, where: mouths

This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter VI. THE LITTLE HOUSE. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tootles, cheers), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 opened	nsubj
2	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 mouths	nmod:poss
4	mouths	mouth	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 opened	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 come	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 come	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 cheers	det
8	cheers	cheer	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 come	nsubj
9	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 come	aux
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 come	advmod
11	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 opened	conj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 opened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	open	past	Tootles = tootle	Tootles's mouths					vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mouth=Theme
2	not come	would	the cheers						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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