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title: The Piccaninnies, on their part, trusted implicitly to his honour, a… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: The Piccaninnies, on their part, trusted implicitly to his honour, and their whole action of the night stands out in marked contrast to his. Who acts: Piccaninnies, paleface, night. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XII. THE CHILDREN ARE CARRIED OFF, with its dependency tree and the
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# Peter Pan, Chapter XII. THE CHILDREN ARE CARRIED OFF, sentence 11

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The Piccaninnies, on their part, trusted implicitly to his honour, and their whole action of the night stands out in marked contrast to his.

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**Who acts:** Piccaninnies, paleface, night · **What happens:** trust, stand out, mark, honour, act · **To what, where:** Piccaninnies, honour, marked contrast

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This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XII. THE CHILDREN ARE CARRIED OFF. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Piccaninnies, paleface, night), 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:pg16:13:11
# text = The Piccaninnies, on their part, trusted implicitly to his honour, and their whole action of the night stands out in marked contrast to his.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Piccaninnies	piccaninny	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	trusted	trust	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
9	implicitly	implicitly	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	honour	honour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
15	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	action	action	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	stands	stand	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
22	out	out	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	marked	mark	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	amod	_	_
25	contrast	contrast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **trust** | participle |  | the Piccaninnies and Piccaninnies's part *not said here* | paleface's honour |  |  |  | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to honour=Recipient |
| 2 | **stand out** | present | the Piccaninnies and Piccaninnies's part |  |  | marked contrast |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in contrast=Location |
| 3 | **mark** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **honour** |  | paleface |  |  |  |  |  | nom honour «state transitive»: poss=agent |
| 5 | **act** |  | the night |  |  |  |  |  | nom action «act 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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