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title: Around the brave Tiger Lily were a dozen of her stoutest warriors, a… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: Around the brave Tiger Lily were a dozen of her stoutest warriors, and they suddenly saw the perfidious pirates bearing down upon them. Who acts: masters, perfidious pirates. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XII. THE CHILDREN ARE CARRIED OFF, with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# Peter Pan, Chapter XII. THE CHILDREN ARE CARRIED OFF, sentence 20

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Around the brave Tiger Lily were a dozen of her stoutest warriors, and they suddenly saw the perfidious pirates bearing down upon them.

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**Who acts:** masters, perfidious pirates · **What happens:** be, see, bear down · **To what, where:** dozen, brave Tiger Lily, perfidious pirates

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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 (masters, perfidious pirates), 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:pg16:13:20
# text = Around the brave Tiger Lily were a dozen of her stoutest warriors, and they suddenly saw the perfidious pirates bearing down upon them.
1	Around	around	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	Tiger	Tiger	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Lily	Lily	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
6	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	dozen	dozen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	stoutest	stout	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	12	amod	_	_
12	warriors	warrior	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	perfidious	perfidious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	pirates	pirate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
21	bearing	bear	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	acl	_	_
22	down	down	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
23	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | a dozen |  | the brave Tiger Lily |  | of thought's stoutest warriors | tree rules |
| 2 | **see** | past | masters *= master* | the perfidious pirates |  |  |  | suddenly *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pirate=Stimulus |
| 3 | **bear down** | gerund | the perfidious pirates *not said here* |  |  |  |  | upon masters *= master*; down *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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