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title: Everything being thus mapped out with almost diabolical cunning, the… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
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# Peter Pan, Chapter XII. THE CHILDREN ARE CARRIED OFF, sentence 16

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Everything being thus mapped out with almost diabolical cunning, the main body of the redskins folded their blankets around them, and in the phlegmatic manner that is to them, the pearl of manhood squatted above the children’s home, awaiting the cold moment when they should deal pale death.

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**Who acts:** Everything, that, Piccaninnies, manhood · **What happens:** map out, fold, be, squat, await, deal · **To what, where:** blankets, phlegmatic manner, manhood, home, pale death

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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 (Everything, that, Piccaninnies, manhood), 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:pg16:13:16
# text = Everything being thus mapped out with almost diabolical cunning, the main body of the redskins folded their blankets around them, and in the phlegmatic manner that is to them, the pearl of manhood squatted above the children’s home, awaiting the cold moment when they should deal pale death.
1	Everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	17	nsubj	_	_
2	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	aux:pass	_	_
3	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	mapped	map	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	acl:relcl	_	_
5	out	out	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	diabolical	diabolical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	cunning	cunning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	main	main	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	redskins	redskin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
17	folded	fold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	blankets	blanket	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
20	around	around	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	phlegmatic	phlegmatic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	manner	manner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
28	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	31	nsubj	_	_
29	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
30	to	to	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	pearl	pearl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	manhood	manhood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	_
37	squatted	squat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	36	acl	_	_
38	above	above	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	’s	's	PART	POS	_	40	case	_	_
42	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
44	awaiting	await	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	34	conj	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
46	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
47	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obj	_	_
48	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	51	advmod	_	_
49	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	51	nsubj	_	_
50	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	51	aux	_	_
51	deal	deal	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	44	advcl	_	_
52	pale	pale	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	53	amod	_	_
53	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **map out** | gerund · passive |  |  |  |  |  | with diabolical cunning and the main body of the redskins; thus *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **fold** | past | Everything | Piccaninnies's blankets |  | the phlegmatic manner and the pearl of manhood |  | around Piccaninnies *= piccaninny* | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent blanket=Patient |
| 3 | **is** | present | that |  |  |  |  | to Piccaninnies *= piccaninny* | tree rules |
| 4 | **squat** | participle |  | manhood *not said here* |  | the children's home |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent above home=Location |
| 5 | **await** | gerund | Everything *not said here* |  |  |  | moment |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **deal** | should | Piccaninnies *= piccaninny* | pale death |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent death=Theme |
| 7 | **pearl** |  | manhood |  |  |  |  |  | nom pearl «possession 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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