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title: So the chill hours wear on, and the long suspense is horribly trying… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: So the chill hours wear on, and the long suspense is horribly trying to the paleface who has to live through it for the first time; but to the trained hand those ghastly calls and still ghastlier silences are but an intimation of how the night is marching. Who acts: chill hours, long suspense, palef
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# Peter Pan, Chapter XII. THE CHILDREN ARE CARRIED OFF, sentence 9

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So the chill hours wear on, and the long suspense is horribly trying to the paleface who has to live through it for the first time; but to the trained hand those ghastly calls and still ghastlier silences are but an intimation of how the night is marching.

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**Who acts:** chill hours, long suspense, paleface, ghastly calls, night · **What happens:** wear on, try, have, live, train, be · **To what, where:** suspense, intimation

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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 (chill hours, long suspense, paleface, ghastly calls), 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:pg16:13:9
# text = So the chill hours wear on, and the long suspense is horribly trying to the paleface who has to live through it for the first time; but to the trained hand those ghastly calls and still ghastlier silences are but an intimation of how the night is marching.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	chill	chill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	wear	wear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	on	on	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	suspense	suspense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	horribly	horribly	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	trying	try	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	paleface	paleface	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
19	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
22	through	through	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obl	_	_
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	27	amod	_	_
27	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
29	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
30	to	to	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	trained	train	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	33	amod	_	_
33	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	_
34	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	36	det	_	_
35	ghastly	ghastly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	calls	call	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	nsubj	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
38	still	still	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
39	ghastlier	ghastly	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	40	amod	_	_
40	silences	silence	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	conj	_	_
41	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	44	cop	_	_
42	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
43	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	intimation	intimation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	_
45	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	50	mark	_	_
46	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	50	advmod	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	nsubj	_	_
49	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	50	aux	_	_
50	marching	march	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	44	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wear on** | present | the chill hours |  |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **try** | present · progressive | the long suspense |  |  |  |  | to the paleface; horribly *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **have** | present | the paleface |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **live** | to-infinitive | the paleface *not said here* |  |  | suspense | time |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through it=Location |
| 5 | **train** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **is a** | present | that ghastly calls and ghastlier silences | a intimation |  |  |  | to the trained hand | tree rules |
| 7 | **march** | present · progressive | the night |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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