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title: Every foot of ground between the spot where Hook had landed his forc… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: Every foot of ground between the spot where Hook had landed his forces and the home under the trees was stealthily examined by braves wearing their mocassins with the heels in front. Who acts: Hook, braves. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XII. THE CHILDREN ARE CARRIED OFF, with it
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# Peter Pan, Chapter XII. THE CHILDREN ARE CARRIED OFF, sentence 14

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Every foot of ground between the spot where Hook had landed his forces and the home under the trees was stealthily examined by braves wearing their mocassins with the heels in front.

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**Who acts:** Hook, braves · **What happens:** land, examine, wear · **To what, where:** forces, trees, foot, mocassins

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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 (Hook, braves), 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:pg16:13:14
# text = Every foot of ground between the spot where Hook had landed his forces and the home under the trees was stealthily examined by braves wearing their mocassins with the heels in front.
1	Every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	between	between	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	spot	spot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
8	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	11	advmod	_	_
9	Hook	Hook	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	landed	land	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	acl:relcl	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	forces	force	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
17	under	under	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux:pass	_	_
21	stealthily	stealthily	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	examined	examine	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
23	by	by	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	braves	brave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
25	wearing	wear	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	24	acl	_	_
26	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	mocassins	mocassin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	_
28	with	with	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	heels	heel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **land** | past · perfect | Hook | Hook's forces and the home |  | the trees |  |  | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent force=Theme under tree=Destination |
| 2 | **examine** | past · passive | braves | every foot of ground between the spot |  |  |  | stealthily *property* | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 3 | **wear** | gerund | braves *not said here* | Piccaninnies's mocassins |  |  |  | with the heels in front | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent mocassin=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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