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title: The children had discovered the glittering hoard, and when in a misc… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: The children had discovered the glittering hoard, and when in a mischievous mood used to fling showers of moidores, diamonds, pearls and pieces of eight to the gulls, who pounced upon them for food, and then flew away, raging at the scurvy trick that had been played upon them. Who acts: gulls. A sen
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# Peter Pan, Chapter IX. THE NEVER BIRD, sentence 35

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The children had discovered the glittering hoard, and when in a mischievous mood used to fling showers of moidores, diamonds, pearls and pieces of eight to the gulls, who pounced upon them for food, and then flew away, raging at the scurvy trick that had been played upon them.

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**Who acts:** gulls · **What happens:** discover, glitter, use, fling, pounce, fly away · **To what, where:** children, mischievous mood, showers, scurvy trick

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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 (gulls), 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:pg16:10:35
# text = The children had discovered the glittering hoard, and when in a mischievous mood used to fling showers of moidores, diamonds, pearls and pieces of eight to the gulls, who pounced upon them for food, and then flew away, raging at the scurvy trick that had been played upon them.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	discovered	discover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	glittering	glitter	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	amod	_	_
7	hoard	hoard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
10	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	42	advmod	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	mischievous	mischievous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	mood	mood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	_
15	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	fling	fling	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	_
18	showers	shower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	moidores	moidore	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	diamonds	diamond	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	pearls	pearl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	eight	eight	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	nmod	_	_
29	to	to	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	gulls	gull	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	34	nsubj	_	_
34	pounced	pounce	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	acl:relcl	_	_
35	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	obl	_	_
37	for	for	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
41	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	42	advmod	_	_
42	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
43	away	away	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
45	raging	rage	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	42	advcl	_	_
46	at	at	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
48	scurvy	scurvy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	compound	_	_
49	trick	trick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obl	_	_
50	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	53	nsubj:pass	_	_
51	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	53	aux	_	_
52	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	53	aux:pass	_	_
53	played	play	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	49	acl:relcl	_	_
54	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
55	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	53	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **discover** | past · perfect · passive |  | the children |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **glitter** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **use** | participle |  | a mischievous mood *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **fling** | to-infinitive |  | showers of moidores and diamonds and pearls and pieces of eight to the gulls |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shower=Theme |
| 5 | **pounce** | past | the gulls |  |  |  |  | upon children *= child*; for food | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon they=Trajectory |
| 6 | **fly away** | past |  |  |  | a mischievous mood | then | away *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in mood=Location |
| 7 | **rage** | gerund |  |  |  | the scurvy trick |  |  | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at trick=Location |
| 8 | **play** | past · perfect · passive |  | the scurvy trick |  |  |  | upon children *= child* | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

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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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