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title: It drifted about till it went to pieces, and often Starkey came to t… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: It drifted about till it went to pieces, and often Starkey came to the shore of the lagoon, and with many bitter feelings watched the bird sitting on his hat. Who acts: hat, Starkey, bird. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter IX. THE NEVER BIRD, with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# Peter Pan, Chapter IX. THE NEVER BIRD, sentence 44

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It drifted about till it went to pieces, and often Starkey came to the shore of the lagoon, and with many bitter feelings watched the bird sitting on his hat.

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**Who acts:** hat, Starkey, bird · **What happens:** drift, go, come, watch, sit · **To what, where:** pieces, shore, bird, hat

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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 (hat, Starkey, bird), 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:pg16:10:44
# text = It drifted about till it went to pieces, and often Starkey came to the shore of the lagoon, and with many bitter feelings watched the bird sitting on his hat.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	drifted	drift	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	about	about	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	often	often	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	Starkey	Starkey	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	lagoon	lagoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
24	bitter	bitter	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	feelings	feeling	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	_
26	watched	watch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	28	acl	_	_
30	on	on	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	hat	hat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drift** | past | hat |  |  |  |  | about *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **go** | past | hat |  |  | pieces |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to piece=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **come** | past | Starkey |  |  | the shore of the lagoon |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to shore=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **watch** | past | Starkey *not said here* | the bird |  |  |  | with many bitter feelings | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Theme |
| 5 | **sit** | gerund | the bird *not said here* |  |  | bird's hat |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on hat=Location |

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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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