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title: Their ignorance gave them one more glad hour; and as it was to be th… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: Their ignorance gave them one more glad hour; and as it was to be their last hour on the island, let us rejoice that there were sixty glad minutes in it. Who acts: ignorance, us, sixty glad minutes, redskins. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter X. THE HAPPY HOME, with its dependency t
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# Peter Pan, Chapter X. THE HAPPY HOME, sentence 139

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Their ignorance gave them one more glad hour; and as it was to be their last hour on the island, let us rejoice that there were sixty glad minutes in it.

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**Who acts:** ignorance, us, sixty glad minutes, redskins · **What happens:** give, be, let, rejoice, ignore · **To what, where:** redskins, island, us

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This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter X. THE HAPPY HOME. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ignorance, us, sixty glad minutes, redskins), 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:pg16:11:139
# text = Their ignorance gave them one more glad hour; and as it was to be their last hour on the island, let us rejoice that there were sixty glad minutes in it.
1	Their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	ignorance	ignorance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	iobj	_	_
5	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
6	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	8	amod	_	_
7	glad	glad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
11	as	as	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
15	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	cop	_	_
16	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
23	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
24	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	rejoice	rejoice	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
26	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
27	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	28	expl	_	_
28	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	advcl	_	_
29	sixty	sixty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	31	nummod	_	_
30	glad	glad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past | redskins's ignorance |  | redskins *= redskin* |  | hour |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | ignorance |  |  | the island | as redskins's last hour |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **let** | infinitive | redskins's ignorance *not said here* | us |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **rejoice** | infinitive | us *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **be** | past | sixty glad minutes in ignorance |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **ignore** |  | redskins *= redskin* |  |  |  |  |  | nom ignorance «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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