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title: “The tom-tom,” the miscreants heard Peter cry; “an Indian victory!” — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: “The tom-tom,” the miscreants heard Peter cry; “an Indian victory!” Who acts: tom tom. 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 67

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“The tom-tom,” the miscreants heard Peter cry; “an Indian victory!”

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**Who acts:** tom tom · **What happens:** hear · **To what, where:** Peter cry

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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 (tom tom), 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:pg16:13:67
# text = “The tom-tom,” the miscreants heard Peter cry; “an Indian victory!”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	tom	tom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	tom	tom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	miscreants	miscreant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
10	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	Peter	Peter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	cry	cry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
14	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	victory	victory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | past | the tom tom  the miscreants | Peter cry |  |  |  | a Indian victory *obl* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer cry=Stimulus |

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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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