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title: This puzzled the pirates, but all their other feelings were swallowe… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: This puzzled the pirates, but all their other feelings were swallowed by a base delight that the enemy were about to come up the trees. Who acts: This, base delight, enemy. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XII. THE CHILDREN ARE CARRIED OFF, with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# Peter Pan, Chapter XII. THE CHILDREN ARE CARRIED OFF, sentence 69

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This puzzled the pirates, but all their other feelings were swallowed by a base delight that the enemy were about to come up the trees.

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**Who acts:** This, base delight, enemy · **What happens:** puzzle, swallow, be, come up · **To what, where:** pirates, other feelings, base delight, trees

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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 (This, base delight, enemy), 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:pg16:13:69
# text = This puzzled the pirates, but all their other feelings were swallowed by a base delight that the enemy were about to come up the trees.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	nsubj	_	_
2	puzzled	puzzle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	pirates	pirate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
6	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
7	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	10	det:predet	_	_
8	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	feelings	feeling	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	swallowed	swallow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	base	base	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	delight	delight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	enemy	enemy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
20	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
21	about	about	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	acl:relcl	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
24	up	up	ADP	RP	_	23	compound:prt	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **puzzle** | past | This | the pirates |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus pirate=Experiencer |
| 2 | **swallow** | past · passive | a base delight | pirates's other feelings |  |  |  |  | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient |
| 3 | **is** | past | the enemy | a base delight *not said here* |  |  |  | about *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **come up** | to-infinitive | the enemy *not said here* | the trees |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tree=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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