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title: All arms were extended to him, as if suddenly blown in his direction… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: All arms were extended to him, as if suddenly blown in his direction; they were beseeching him mutely not to desert them. Who acts: arms. 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 191

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All arms were extended to him, as if suddenly blown in his direction; they were beseeching him mutely not to desert them.

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**Who acts:** arms · **What happens:** extend, blow, beseech, not desert · **To what, where:** arms, Bell, direction

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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 (arms), 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:pg16:12:191
# text = All arms were extended to him, as if suddenly blown in his direction; they were beseeching him mutely not to desert them.
1	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	extended	extend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	blown	blow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	direction	direction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	beseeching	beseech	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
19	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	mutely	mutely	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
21	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	desert	desert	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	advcl	_	_
24	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **extend** | past · passive |  | all arms | Bell |  |  |  | vn contribute-13.2-2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to he=Recipient |
| 2 | **blow** *a condition, not said to happen* | participle |  |  |  | Bell's direction |  | suddenly *property* | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **beseech** | past · progressive | arms *= arm* | Bell |  |  |  | mutely *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **desert** | to-infinitive | arms *= arm* *not said here* | arms *= arm* |  |  |  |  | vn leave-51.2-1 «NP V NP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme they=Source |

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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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