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title: The pirates kicked him in their rage, just as you kick the parcel (t… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: The pirates kicked him in their rage, just as you kick the parcel (though in fairness you should kick the string); and strange to say it was Hook who told them to belay their violence. Who acts: pirates, you, pirate, Hook. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XIII. DO YOU BELIEVE IN FA
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# Peter Pan, Chapter XIII. DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES?, sentence 13

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The pirates kicked him in their rage, just as you kick the parcel (though in fairness you should kick the string); and strange to say it was Hook who told them to belay their violence.

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**Who acts:** pirates, you, pirate, Hook, others · **What happens:** kick, say, be, tell, belay, rage · **To what, where:** turn, rage, parcel, string, fairness, Hook · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (pirates, you, pirate, Hook), 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:pg16:14:13
# text = The pirates kicked him in their rage, just as you kick the parcel (though in fairness you should kick the string); and strange to say it was Hook who told them to belay their violence.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	pirates	pirate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	kicked	kick	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	rage	rage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	just	just	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
10	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	kick	kick	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	parcel	parcel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	fairness	fairness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	kick	kick	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	parataxis	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	string	string	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	csubj	_	_
30	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
31	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
32	Hook	hook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
33	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	34	nsubj	_	_
34	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	acl:relcl	_	_
35	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	iobj	_	_
36	to	to	PART	TO	_	37	mark	_	_
37	belay	belay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	xcomp	_	_
38	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	violence	violence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **kick** | past | the pirates | turn |  | others's rage |  |  | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Patient in rage=Location |
| 2 | **kick** | present | you | the parcel |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent parcel=Patient |
| 3 | **kick** | should | you | the string |  | fairness |  |  | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent string=Patient in fairness=Location |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is a** | past | pirate | Hook |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Hook |  | parcels *= parcel* |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 7 | **belay** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Hook *not said here* | parcels's violence |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **rage** |  | others *= other* |  |  |  |  |  | nom rage «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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