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title: The cry is answered by other braves; and some of them do it even bet… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: The cry is answered by other braves; and some of them do it even better than the coyotes, who are not very good at it. Who acts: other braves, some, coyotes. 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 cla
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# Peter Pan, Chapter XII. THE CHILDREN ARE CARRIED OFF, sentence 8

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The cry is answered by other braves; and some of them do it even better than the coyotes, who are not very good at it.

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**Who acts:** other braves, some, coyotes · **What happens:** answer, do, not be · **To what, where:** 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 (other braves, some, coyotes), 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:pg16:13:8
# text = The cry is answered by other braves; and some of them do it even better than the coyotes, who are not very good at it.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cry	cry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	answered	answer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	braves	brave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	13	nsubj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nmod	_	_
13	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	even	even	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	better	well	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	13	advmod	_	_
17	than	than	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	coyotes	coyote	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
22	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
23	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
24	very	very	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	acl:relcl	_	_
26	at	at	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | present · passive | other braves | the cry |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent subject=Eventuality |
| 2 | **do** | present | some | cry |  |  |  | well *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
| 3 | **not** **is** | present | the coyotes |  |  |  |  | at coyote; good *property* | 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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