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title: The truth is that there was a something about Peter which goaded the… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: The truth is that there was a something about Peter which goaded the pirate captain to frenzy. Who acts: truth. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XII. THE CHILDREN ARE CARRIED OFF, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Peter Pan, Chapter XII. THE CHILDREN ARE CARRIED OFF, sentence 47

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The truth is that there was a something about Peter which goaded the pirate captain to frenzy.

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**Who acts:** truth · **What happens:** be, goad, frenzy · **To what, where:** something, pirate captain

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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 (truth), 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:pg16:13:47
# text = The truth is that there was a something about Peter which goaded the pirate captain to frenzy.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	truth	truth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	6	expl	_	_
6	was	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	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	0	root	_	_
9	about	about	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Peter	Peter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	goaded	goad	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	pirate	pirate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	captain	captain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	frenzy	frenzy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the truth | something |  |  |  | about Peter | tree rules |
| 2 | **goad** | past |  | the pirate captain |  |  |  |  | vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent captain=Patient |
| 3 | **frenzy** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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