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title: What could the bewildered scouts do, masters as they were of every w… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: What could the bewildered scouts do, masters as they were of every war-like artifice save this one, but trot helplessly after him, exposing themselves fatally to view, while they gave pathetic utterance to the coyote cry. Who acts: bewildered scouts, scouts, masters, exposing. A sentence of «Peter P
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# Peter Pan, Chapter XII. THE CHILDREN ARE CARRIED OFF, sentence 19

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What could the bewildered scouts do, masters as they were of every war-like artifice save this one, but trot helplessly after him, exposing themselves fatally to view, while they gave pathetic utterance to the coyote cry.

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**Who acts:** bewildered scouts, scouts, masters, exposing · **What happens:** bewilder, do, be, save, trot, expose · **To what, where:** masters, one, scouts, pathetic utterance, coyote cry

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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 (bewildered scouts, scouts, masters, exposing), 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:pg16:13:19
# text = What could the bewildered scouts do, masters as they were of every war-like artifice save this one, but trot helplessly after him, exposing themselves fatally to view, while they gave pathetic utterance to the coyote cry.
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	obj	_	_
2	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	bewildered	bewilder	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	amod	_	_
5	scouts	scout	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	masters	master	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
9	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
11	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
13	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	det	_	_
14	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	like	like	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	artifice	artifice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	acl	_	_
18	save	save	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	20	det	_	_
20	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	trot	trot	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
24	helplessly	helplessly	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
25	after	after	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	exposing	expose	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	32	csubj	_	_
29	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	28	obj	_	_
30	fatally	fatally	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	view	view	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
34	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
35	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
36	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	conj	_	_
37	pathetic	pathetic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	utterance	utterance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	_
39	to	to	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
41	coyote	coyote	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	compound	_	_
42	cry	cry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bewilder** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **do** | could | the bewildered scouts |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
| 3 | **is** | past | scouts *= scout* | masters *not said here* |  |  |  | of every like artifice | tree rules |
| 4 | **save** | present | masters | this one |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme |
| 5 | **trot** | present | masters *not said here* |  |  |  | after Hook | helplessly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **expose** | gerund |  | scouts *= scout* |  |  |  |  | vn indicate-78 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot themselves=Topic |
| 7 | **view** | to-infinitive | exposing |  |  |  |  | fatally *property* | vn characterize-29.2-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **give** | past | scouts *= scout* | pathetic utterance | the coyote cry |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent utterance=Theme to cry=Recipient |

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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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