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title: Presently he noticed as an odd thing that it was undoubtedly out upo… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: Presently he noticed as an odd thing that it was undoubtedly out upon the lagoon with some definite purpose, for it was fighting the tide, and sometimes winning; and when it won, Peter, always sympathetic to the weaker side, could not help clapping; it was such a gallant piece of paper. Who acts: so
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# Peter Pan, Chapter IX. THE NEVER BIRD, sentence 5

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Presently he noticed as an odd thing that it was undoubtedly out upon the lagoon with some definite purpose, for it was fighting the tide, and sometimes winning; and when it won, Peter, always sympathetic to the weaker side, could not help clapping; it was such a gallant piece of paper.

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**Who acts:** sound, thing · **What happens:** notice, be, fight, win, not help, clap · **To what, where:** tide, Peter, gallant piece

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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 (sound, thing), 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:pg16:10:5
# text = Presently he noticed as an odd thing that it was undoubtedly out upon the lagoon with some definite purpose, for it was fighting the tide, and sometimes winning; and when it won, Peter, always sympathetic to the weaker side, could not help clapping; it was such a gallant piece of paper.
1	Presently	presently	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	noticed	notice	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	as	as	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	odd	odd	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	undoubtedly	undoubtedly	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	out	out	ADV	RB	_	3	ccomp	_	_
13	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	lagoon	lagoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	19	det	_	_
18	definite	definite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	purpose	purpose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	fighting	fight	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	parataxis	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	tide	tide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	30	advmod	_	_
30	winning	win	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
33	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	35	mark	_	_
34	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	won	win	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
37	Peter	Peter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
39	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	40	advmod	_	_
40	sympathetic	sympathetic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
41	to	to	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
43	weaker	weak	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	44	amod	_	_
44	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
46	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	48	aux	_	_
47	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	48	advmod	_	_
48	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	advcl	_	_
49	clapping	clap	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	48	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	56	punct	_	_
51	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	56	nsubj	_	_
52	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	56	cop	_	_
53	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	56	det:predet	_	_
54	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
55	gallant	gallant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	56	amod	_	_
56	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
57	of	of	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
58	paper	paper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **notice** | past | sound |  |  |  |  | as a odd thing; with some definite purpose; presently *property* | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is** | past | thing |  |  |  |  | upon the lagoon; out, undoubtedly *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **fight** | past · progressive | thing | the tide |  |  |  |  | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tide=Co-Agent |
| 4 | **win** | gerund | thing *not said here* |  |  |  |  | sometimes *property* | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **win** | past | thing | Peter |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peter=Eventuality |
| 6 | **not** **help** | could | thing *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 7 | **clap** *not said to happen* | gerund | thing *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **is a** | past | thing | such gallant piece |  |  |  | of paper | 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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