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title: With that alertness of the senses which is at once the marvel and de… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: With that alertness of the senses which is at once the marvel and despair of civilised peoples, they knew that the pirates were on the island from the moment one of them trod on a dry stick; and in an incredibly short space of time the coyote cries began. Who acts: senses, Piccaninnies, pirates, isl
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# Peter Pan, Chapter XII. THE CHILDREN ARE CARRIED OFF, sentence 13

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With that alertness of the senses which is at once the marvel and despair of civilised peoples, they knew that the pirates were on the island from the moment one of them trod on a dry stick; and in an incredibly short space of time the coyote cries began.

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**Who acts:** senses, Piccaninnies, pirates, island, coyote, short space · **What happens:** be, civilise, know, tread, cry, begin · **To what, where:** marvel, island, dry stick, time · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (senses, Piccaninnies, pirates, island), 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:pg16:13:13
# text = With that alertness of the senses which is at once the marvel and despair of civilised peoples, they knew that the pirates were on the island from the moment one of them trod on a dry stick; and in an incredibly short space of time the coyote cries began.
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	alertness	alertness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	senses	sens	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
7	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	once	once	SCONJ	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	marvel	marvel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	acl:relcl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	despair	despair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	civilised	civilise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	amod	_	_
17	peoples	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
19	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
21	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	pirates	pirate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj	_	_
24	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
25	on	on	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	ccomp	_	_
28	from	from	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
31	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	30	flat	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nmod	_	_
34	trod	tread	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	acl:relcl	_	_
35	on	on	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	stick	stick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	51	punct	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
41	in	in	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
42	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
43	incredibly	incredibly	ADV	RB	_	44	advmod	_	_
44	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
45	space	space	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	nsubj	_	_
46	of	of	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
47	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nmod	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	coyote	coyote	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	nsubj	_	_
50	cries	cry	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	47	acl:relcl	_	_
51	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the senses |  |  | the marvel and despair of civilised peoples |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **civilise** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **know** | past | Piccaninnies *= piccaninny* |  |  |  |  | with that alertness of the senses | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **is** | past | the pirates |  |  | the island |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **tread** | past | the island *not said here* |  |  | a dry stick | moment |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on stick=Trajectory |
| 6 | **cry** *speech: express* | present | the coyote | time *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent time=Topic |
| 7 | **begin** | past | a short space of time |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 8 | **despair** |  | civilised peoples |  |  |  |  |  | nom despair «state 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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