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title: Hunched up in their ropes they might indeed be rolled down hill like… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: Hunched up in their ropes they might indeed be rolled down hill like barrels, but most of the way lay through a morass. Who acts: most. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XIII. DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES?, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Peter Pan, Chapter XIII. DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES?, sentence 21

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Hunched up in their ropes they might indeed be rolled down hill like barrels, but most of the way lay through a morass.

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**Who acts:** most · **What happens:** hunch up, roll down, lie · **To what, where:** ropes, captives, morass

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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 (most), 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:pg16:14:21
# text = Hunched up in their ropes they might indeed be rolled down hill like barrels, but most of the way lay through a morass.
1	Hunched	hunch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	up	up	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	ropes	rope	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
6	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
8	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
9	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	rolled	roll	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	parataxis	_	_
11	down	down	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
13	like	like	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	barrels	barrel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
17	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	21	nsubj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
22	through	through	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	morass	morass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hunch up** | participle |  |  |  | captives's ropes |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in rope=Location |
| 2 | **roll down** | might · passive |  | captives *= captive* |  |  |  | hill like barrels *obl*; indeed *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Agent |
| 3 | **lie** | past | most of the way |  |  | a morass |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent through morass=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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