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title: There they await the onslaught, the inexperienced ones clutching the… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: There they await the onslaught, the inexperienced ones clutching their revolvers and treading on twigs, but the old hands sleeping tranquilly until just before the dawn. Who acts: redskins, inexperienced ones, old hands. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XII. THE CHILDREN ARE CARRIE
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# Peter Pan, Chapter XII. THE CHILDREN ARE CARRIED OFF, sentence 4

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There they await the onslaught, the inexperienced ones clutching their revolvers and treading on twigs, but the old hands sleeping tranquilly until just before the dawn.

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**Who acts:** redskins, inexperienced ones, old hands · **What happens:** await, clutch, tread, sleep · **To what, where:** onslaught, revolvers, twigs

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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 (redskins, inexperienced ones, old hands), 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:pg16:13:4
# text = There they await the onslaught, the inexperienced ones clutching their revolvers and treading on twigs, but the old hands sleeping tranquilly until just before the dawn.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	await	await	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	onslaught	onslaught	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	inexperienced	inexperienced	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	appos	_	_
10	clutching	clutch	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	acl	_	_
11	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	revolvers	revolver	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	treading	tread	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	conj	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	twigs	twig	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
22	sleeping	sleep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	acl	_	_
23	tranquilly	tranquilly	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
24	until	until	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
25	just	just	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
26	before	before	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	dawn	dawn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **await** | present | redskins *= redskin* | the onslaught |  | there | dawn | the old hands *obl* | tree rules |
| 2 | **clutch** | gerund | the inexperienced ones *not said here* | redskins's revolvers |  |  |  |  | vn hold-15.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent revolver=Theme |
| 3 | **tread** | gerund | the inexperienced ones *not said here* |  |  | twigs |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on twig=Trajectory |
| 4 | **sleep** | gerund | the old hands *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tranquilly *property* | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=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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