--- title: Crowds followed the cab, cheering it lustily; charming girls scaled… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics description: 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. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/17/61/) [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 XVI. THE RETURN HOME](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/17/) / 61 # 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg16:17:61 # text = 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.” 1 Crowds crowd NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 followed follow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 cab cab NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 6 cheering cheer VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 advcl _ _ 7 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 obj _ _ 8 lustily lustily ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ; ; PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 10 charming charm VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 11 amod _ _ 11 girls girl NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nsubj _ _ 12 scaled scale VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 13 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 obj _ _ 14 to to PART TO _ 15 mark _ _ 15 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 advcl _ _ 16 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 autograph autograph NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 ; ; PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 19 interviews interview NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj _ _ 20 appeared appear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 21 in in ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 24 amod _ _ 24 class class NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 papers paper NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 29 society society NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 30 invited invite VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 31 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 obj _ _ 32 to to ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 dinner dinner NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 added add VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 37 “ " PUNCT `` _ 39 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 38 Do do AUX VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 39 aux _ _ 39 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 35 ccomp _ _ 40 in in ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 kennel kennel NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 44 ” " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 60](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/17/60/) - next →: [sentence 62](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/17/62/) - ↑ back to [Chapter XVI. THE RETURN HOME](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/17/)