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title: As for Peter, he seized his sword, the same he thought he had slain… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: As for Peter, he seized his sword, the same he thought he had slain Barbecue with, and the lust of battle was in his eye. Who acts: Bell, same, lust, battle. 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 192

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As for Peter, he seized his sword, the same he thought he had slain Barbecue with, and the lust of battle was in his eye.

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**Who acts:** Bell, same, lust, battle · **What happens:** seize, think, slay, be, lust · **To what, where:** sword, Barbecue, eye · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Bell, same, lust, battle), 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:pg16:12:192
# text = As for Peter, he seized his sword, the same he thought he had slain Barbecue with, and the lust of battle was in his eye.
1	As	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	3	case	_	_
2	for	for	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	Peter	Peter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	seized	seize	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	nsubj	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	slain	slay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	13	ccomp	_	_
17	Barbecue	barbecue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	lust	lust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seize** | past | Bell | Bell's sword |  |  |  | as Peter | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Theme |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | past | the same | Bell's sword *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent sword=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 3 | **slay** | past · perfect | Bell | Barbecue |  |  |  |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent barbecue=Patient |
| 4 | **is** | past | the lust of battle |  |  | Bell's eye |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **lust** |  | battle |  |  |  |  |  | nom lust «feeling intransitive»: of=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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