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title: Even by day they hung about, smoking the pipe of peace, and looking… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: Even by day they hung about, smoking the pipe of peace, and looking almost as if they wanted tit-bits to eat. Who acts: braves, tit bits. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter X. THE HAPPY HOME, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Peter Pan, Chapter X. THE HAPPY HOME, sentence 4

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Even by day they hung about, smoking the pipe of peace, and looking almost as if they wanted tit-bits to eat.

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**Who acts:** braves, tit bits · **What happens:** hang about, smoke, look, want, eat · **To what, where:** pipe, tit bits

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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, tit bits), 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:pg16:11:4
# text = Even by day they hung about, smoking the pipe of peace, and looking almost as if they wanted tit-bits to eat.
1	Even	even	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	by	by	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	hung	hang	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	about	about	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	smoking	smoke	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	pipe	pipe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
16	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
17	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
18	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
19	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
21	tit	tit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	bits	bit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hang about** | past | braves *= brave* |  |  |  | day | about *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **smoke** | gerund | braves *= brave* *not said here* | the pipe of peace |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent pipe=Source |
| 3 | **look** | gerund | braves *= brave* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **want** | past | braves *= brave* | tit bits |  |  |  | almost *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **eat** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | tit bits *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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