--- title: He was too far away to hear their doors shut; but every door in the… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics description: He was too far away to hear their doors shut; but every door in the coral caves where they live rings a tiny bell when it opens or closes (as in all the nicest houses on the mainland), and he heard the bells. Who acts: sound, doors, bell. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter IX. THE NE --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/10/2/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Peter Pan](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/) / [Chapter IX. THE NEVER BIRD](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/10/) / 2 # Peter Pan, Chapter IX. THE NEVER BIRD, sentence 2 He was too far away to hear their doors shut; but every door in the coral caves where they live rings a tiny bell when it opens or closes (as in all the nicest houses on the mainland), and he heard the bells. **Who acts:** sound, doors, bell · **What happens:** be, hear, live, open, close · **To what, where:** doors, rings, nicest houses, mainland, bells This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter IX. THE NEVER BIRD. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sound, doors, bell), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg16:10:2 # text = He was too far away to hear their doors shut; but every door in the coral caves where they live rings a tiny bell when it opens or closes (as in all the nicest houses on the mainland), and he heard the bells. 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 3 too too ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 5 advmod _ _ 5 away away ADV RB _ 0 root _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 hear hear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 advcl _ _ 8 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 doors door NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ _ 10 shut shut ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ; ; PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 12 but but CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 13 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 14 det _ _ 14 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 15 in in ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 coral coral NOUN NN _ 18 compound _ _ 18 caves cave NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nmod _ _ 19 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 21 advmod _ _ 20 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 live live VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 22 rings ring NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obj _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 bell bell NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl:unmarked _ _ 26 when when SCONJ WRB _ 28 mark _ _ 27 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 opens open VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 advcl _ _ 29 or or CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 closes close VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 conj _ _ 31 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 37 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 32 as as ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 33 in in ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 34 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 37 det:predet _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 36 nicest nice ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 37 amod _ _ 37 houses house NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obj _ _ 38 on on ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 mainland mainland NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 41 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 37 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 42 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 43 and and CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 44 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 45 nsubj _ _ 45 heard hear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 conj _ _ 46 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 47 bells bell NOUN NNS Number=Plur 45 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | sound | | | | | away, far *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **hear** | to-infinitive | sound *not said here* | mermaids's doors | | | | shut *property* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer door=Stimulus | | 3 | **live** | present | doors *= door* | rings | | | | a tiny bell *obl:unmarked* | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme ring=Location | | 4 | **open** | present | bell | | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **close** | present | bell *not said here* | all nicest houses | | the mainland | | | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Patient | | 6 | **hear** | past | sound | the bells | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer bell=Stimulus | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/10/1/) - next →: [sentence 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/10/3/) - ↑ back to [Chapter IX. THE NEVER BIRD](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/10/)