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title: In the meantime the boys were gazing very forlornly at Wendy, now eq… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: In the meantime the boys were gazing very forlornly at Wendy, now equipped with John and Michael for the journey. Who acts: boys. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XI. WENDY’S STORY, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Peter Pan, Chapter XI. WENDY’S STORY, sentence 135

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In the meantime the boys were gazing very forlornly at Wendy, now equipped with John and Michael for the journey.

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**Who acts:** boys · **What happens:** gaze, equip

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This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XI. WENDY’S STORY. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boys), 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:pg16:12:135
# text = In the meantime the boys were gazing very forlornly at Wendy, now equipped with John and Michael for the journey.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	meantime	meantime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
6	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	gazing	gaze	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
8	very	very	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	forlornly	forlornly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Wendy	Wendy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	advmod	_	_
14	equipped	equip	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	parataxis	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	John	John	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	Michael	Michael	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gaze** | past · progressive | the boys |  |  |  |  | at Wendy; in the meantime; forlornly *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in meantime=Theme |
| 2 | **equip** | participle |  |  |  |  | now | with John and Michael; for the journey | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP»: agent=Agent with john=Theme |

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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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