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title: She called out to him what she had come for, and he called out to he… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: She called out to him what she had come for, and he called out to her what she was doing there; but of course neither of them understood the other’s language. Who acts: Peter, bird, neither. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter IX. THE NEVER BIRD, with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# Peter Pan, Chapter IX. THE NEVER BIRD, sentence 11

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She called out to him what she had come for, and he called out to her what she was doing there; but of course neither of them understood the other’s language.

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**Who acts:** Peter, bird, neither · **What happens:** call out, come, do, understand · **To what, where:** bird, Peter, language

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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 (Peter, bird, neither), 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:pg16:10:11
# text = She called out to him what she had come for, and he called out to her what she was doing there; but of course neither of them understood the other’s language.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	out	out	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	_
6	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	9	nsubj	_	_
7	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	parataxis	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
15	out	out	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	_
18	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	21	obj	_	_
19	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	doing	do	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
22	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
24	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	fixed	_	_
27	neither	neither	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	30	nsubj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nmod	_	_
30	understood	understand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	’s	's	PART	POS	_	32	case	_	_
34	language	language	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call out** *speech: assert* | past | Peter |  | bird |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient |
| 2 | **come** | past · perfect |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **call out** *speech: assert* | past | bird |  | Peter |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient |
| 4 | **do** | past · progressive | Peter |  |  | there |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
| 5 | **understand** | past | neither | the other's language |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer language=Stimulus |

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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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