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title: Thus terrible as the sudden appearance of the pirates must have been… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: Thus terrible as the sudden appearance of the pirates must have been to them, they remained stationary for a moment, not a muscle moving; as if the foe had come by invitation. Who acts: savages, muscle, foe. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XII. THE CHILDREN ARE CARRIED OFF, with i
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# Peter Pan, Chapter XII. THE CHILDREN ARE CARRIED OFF, sentence 27

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Thus terrible as the sudden appearance of the pirates must have been to them, they remained stationary for a moment, not a muscle moving; as if the foe had come by invitation.

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**Who acts:** savages, muscle, foe · **What happens:** have, remain, move, come · **To what, where:** stationary

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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 (savages, muscle, foe), 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:pg16:13:27
# text = Thus terrible as the sudden appearance of the pirates must have been to them, they remained stationary for a moment, not a muscle moving; as if the foe had come by invitation.
1	Thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	terrible	terrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	as	as	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	sudden	sudden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	appearance	appearance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	pirates	pirate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
10	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	2	aux	_	_
11	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
12	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	xcomp	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	remained	remain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
18	stationary	stationary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	muscle	muscle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	appos	_	_
26	moving	move	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	25	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
28	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
29	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	foe	foe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
32	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
33	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	17	conj	_	_
34	by	by	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	invitation	invitation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **remain** | past | savages *= savage* | stationary |  |  | moment |  | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme stationary=Attribute |
| 3 | **move** | gerund | a muscle *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **come** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · perfect | the foe |  |  |  |  | by invitation | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by invitation=Location |

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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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