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title: Fain would his dogs have known, as breathing heavily and wiping thei… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: Fain would his dogs have known, as breathing heavily and wiping their cutlasses, they gathered at a discreet distance from his hook, and squinted through their ferret eyes at this extraordinary man. Who acts: dogs. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XII. THE CHILDREN ARE CARRIED OFF,
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# Peter Pan, Chapter XII. THE CHILDREN ARE CARRIED OFF, sentence 41

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Fain would his dogs have known, as breathing heavily and wiping their cutlasses, they gathered at a discreet distance from his hook, and squinted through their ferret eyes at this extraordinary man.

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**Who acts:** dogs · **What happens:** know, breathe, wipe, gather, squint · **To what, where:** Fain, cutlasses

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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 (dogs), 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:pg16:13:41
# text = Fain would his dogs have known, as breathing heavily and wiping their cutlasses, they gathered at a discreet distance from his hook, and squinted through their ferret eyes at this extraordinary man.
1	Fain	Fain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
9	breathing	breathe	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	_
10	heavily	heavily	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	wiping	wipe	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	conj	_	_
13	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	cutlasses	cutlass	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	gathered	gather	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
18	at	at	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	discreet	discreet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
22	from	from	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	hook	hook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	squinted	squint	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
28	through	through	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
30	ferret	ferret	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	_
32	at	at	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	35	det	_	_
34	extraordinary	extraordinary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | would · perfect · passive |  | Fain |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus |
| 2 | **breathe** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | heavily *property* | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **wipe** | gerund |  | dogs's cutlasses |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent cutlass=Source |
| 4 | **gather** | past | dogs *= dog* |  |  |  |  | at a discreet distance from Fain's hook | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **squint** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | at this extraordinary man; through dogs's ferret eyes | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent through eye=Theme |

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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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