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title: A light fall of snow had obliterated all footmarks; and a deathly si… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: A light fall of snow had obliterated all footmarks; and a deathly silence pervaded the island, as if for a space Nature stood still in horror of the recent carnage. Who acts: deathly silence. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XIII. DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES?, with its dependency tre
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# Peter Pan, Chapter XIII. DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES?, sentence 153

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A light fall of snow had obliterated all footmarks; and a deathly silence pervaded the island, as if for a space Nature stood still in horror of the recent carnage.

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**Who acts:** deathly silence · **What happens:** obliterate, pervade, stand · **To what, where:** light fall, island, horror

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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 (deathly silence), 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:pg16:14:153
# text = A light fall of snow had obliterated all footmarks; and a deathly silence pervaded the island, as if for a space Nature stood still in horror of the recent carnage.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	light	light	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	fall	fall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	obliterated	obliterate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	det	_	_
9	footmarks	footmark	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	deathly	deathly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	silence	silence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	pervaded	pervade	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
19	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
20	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	space	space	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
24	Nature	Nature	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	appos	_	_
25	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
26	still	still	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	horror	horror	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	recent	recent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	carnage	carnage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **obliterate** | past · perfect · passive |  | a light fall of snow |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **pervade** | past | a deathly silence | the island |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **stand** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | a deathly silence *not said here* |  |  | horror of the recent carnage | still | for a space | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in horror=Location |

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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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