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title: The doomed children answered with a cheer that was music to the blac… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: The doomed children answered with a cheer that was music to the black hearts above, and almost immediately they repeated their good-byes to Peter. Who acts: that, doomed children. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XII. THE CHILDREN ARE CARRIED OFF, with its dependency tree and the p
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# Peter Pan, Chapter XII. THE CHILDREN ARE CARRIED OFF, sentence 68

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The doomed children answered with a cheer that was music to the black hearts above, and almost immediately they repeated their good-byes to Peter.

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**Who acts:** that, doomed children · **What happens:** doom, answer, be, repeat · **To what, where:** doomed children, music, good byes, Peter

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This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XII. THE CHILDREN ARE CARRIED OFF. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (that, doomed children), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg16:13:68
# text = The doomed children answered with a cheer that was music to the black hearts above, and almost immediately they repeated their good-byes to Peter.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	doomed	doom	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	amod	_	_
3	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
4	answered	answer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	cheer	cheer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	hearts	heart	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
15	above	above	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	immediately	immediately	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
20	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	repeated	repeat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
22	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
23	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	byes	by	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	Peter	Peter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **doom** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **answer** *speech: assert* | participle |  | the doomed children *not said here* |  |  |  | with a cheer and music | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | past | that | music |  |  |  | to the black hearts | tree rules |
| 4 | **repeat** | past | the doomed children | children's good byes | Peter |  |  | immediately *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent by=Topic to peter=Recipient |

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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.

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**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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