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title: All night they sat above, keeping watch over the home under the grou… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: All night they sat above, keeping watch over the home under the ground and awaiting the big attack by the pirates which obviously could not be much longer delayed. Who acts: braves, pirates. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter X. THE HAPPY HOME, with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# Peter Pan, Chapter X. THE HAPPY HOME, sentence 3

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All night they sat above, keeping watch over the home under the ground and awaiting the big attack by the pirates which obviously could not be much longer delayed.

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**Who acts:** braves, pirates · **What happens:** sit, keep, await, not be · **To what, where:** watch, home, big attack

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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 (braves, pirates), 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:pg16:11:3
# text = All night they sat above, keeping watch over the home under the ground and awaiting the big attack by the pirates which obviously could not be much longer delayed.
1	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	above	above	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	keeping	keep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
8	watch	watch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	over	over	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	under	under	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	awaiting	await	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	conj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	attack	attack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
20	by	by	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	pirates	pirate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
23	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	30	nsubj	_	_
24	obviously	obviously	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
25	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
26	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	30	advmod	_	_
27	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	cop	_	_
28	much	much	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	30	advmod	_	_
30	delayed	delayed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | past | braves *= brave* |  |  |  | night | above *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **keep** | gerund | braves *= brave* *not said here* | watch |  | the home |  | under the ground | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent watch=Theme over home=Location |
| 3 | **await** | gerund | braves *= brave* *not said here* | the big attack |  |  |  | by the pirates | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **is** | could | the pirates |  |  |  |  | delayed, long, obviously *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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