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title: Every boy had adventures to tell; but perhaps the biggest adventure… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: Every boy had adventures to tell; but perhaps the biggest adventure of all was that they were several hours late for bed. Who acts: boy, biggest adventure. 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 47

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Every boy had adventures to tell; but perhaps the biggest adventure of all was that they were several hours late for bed.

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**Who acts:** boy, biggest adventure · **What happens:** have, tell, be · **To what, where:** adventures · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (boy, biggest adventure), 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:pg16:10:47
# text = Every boy had adventures to tell; but perhaps the biggest adventure of all was that they were several hours late for bed.
1	Every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	adventures	adventure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
9	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	biggest	big	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	12	amod	_	_
12	adventure	adventure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	nmod	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
16	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
18	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
19	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
21	late	late	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	23	advmod	_	_
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | every boy | adventures |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent adventure=Patient |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | every boy *not said here* | adventures *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | past | the biggest adventure of all |  |  |  |  | for bed; late *property* | tree rules |

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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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