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title: All went well until Slightly’s turn came, when he was found to be li… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: All went well until Slightly’s turn came, when he was found to be like those irritating parcels that use up all the string in going round and leave no tags with which to tie a knot. Who acts: turn, irritating parcels. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XIII. DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES
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# Peter Pan, Chapter XIII. DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES?, sentence 12

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All went well until Slightly’s turn came, when he was found to be like those irritating parcels that use up all the string in going round and leave no tags with which to tie a knot.

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**Who acts:** turn, irritating parcels · **What happens:** go, come, find, be, use up, go round · **To what, where:** turn, string, tags, knot

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This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XIII. DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES?. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (turn, irritating parcels), 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:pg16:14:12
# text = All went well until Slightly’s turn came, when he was found to be like those irritating parcels that use up all the string in going round and leave no tags with which to tie a knot.
1	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	advmod	_	_
2	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	2	advmod	_	_
4	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
5	Slightly	slightly	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	’s	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	turn	turn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	13	advmod	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	parataxis	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
15	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	cop	_	_
16	like	like	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	19	det	_	_
18	irritating	irritating	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	parcels	parcel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
20	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
21	use	use	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	_
22	up	up	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	_
23	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	25	det:predet	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	string	string	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl:unmarked	_	_
26	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
27	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	advcl	_	_
28	round	round	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	conj	_	_
31	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	32	det	_	_
32	tags	tag	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obj	_	_
33	with	with	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	36	obl	_	_
35	to	to	PART	TO	_	36	mark	_	_
36	tie	tie	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	acl:relcl	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	knot	knot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past |  |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **come** | past | turn |  |  |  |  | slightly *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **find** | past · passive |  | turn |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
| 4 | **is** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | like that irritating parcels | tree rules |
| 5 | **use up** | present | that irritating parcels | all string |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **go round** | gerund | that irritating parcels *not said here* |  |  |  |  | round *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **leave** | infinitive | that irritating parcels *not said here* | no tags |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tag=Theme |
| 8 | **tie** | to-infinitive | that irritating parcels *not said here* | a knot |  |  |  | with no tags | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent knot=Patient with which=Co-Patient |

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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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