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title: The last sound Peter heard before he was quite alone were the mermai… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: The last sound Peter heard before he was quite alone were the mermaids retiring one by one to their bedchambers under the sea. Who acts: last sound, sound. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter IX. THE NEVER BIRD, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Peter Pan, Chapter IX. THE NEVER BIRD, sentence 1

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The last sound Peter heard before he was quite alone were the mermaids retiring one by one to their bedchambers under the sea.

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**Who acts:** last sound, sound · **What happens:** hear, retire · **To what, where:** one

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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 (last sound, sound), 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:pg16:10:1
# text = The last sound Peter heard before he was quite alone were the mermaids retiring one by one to their bedchambers under the sea.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	Peter	Peter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
5	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
9	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
11	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	mermaids	mermaid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
14	retiring	retire	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
15	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	obj	_	_
16	by	by	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nmod	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	bedchambers	bedchamber	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
21	under	under	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | past | the last sound |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **retire** | past · progressive | sound | one |  |  |  | by one to mermaids's bedchambers under the sea; alone *property* | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Attribute |

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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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