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title: The children were flung into it, four stout pirates raised it on the… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: The children were flung into it, four stout pirates raised it on their shoulders, the others fell in behind, and singing the hateful pirate chorus the strange procession set off through the wood. Who acts: four stout pirates, others. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XIII. DO YOU BE
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# Peter Pan, Chapter XIII. DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES?, sentence 24

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The children were flung into it, four stout pirates raised it on their shoulders, the others fell in behind, and singing the hateful pirate chorus the strange procession set off through the wood.

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**Who acts:** four stout pirates, others · **What happens:** fling, raise, fall in, sing, set off · **To what, where:** children, conveyance, shoulders, hateful pirate chorus, strange procession, wood

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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 (four stout pirates, others), 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:pg16:14:24
# text = The children were flung into it, four stout pirates raised it on their shoulders, the others fell in behind, and singing the hateful pirate chorus the strange procession set off through the wood.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	flung	fling	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
9	stout	stout	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	pirates	pirate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	raised	raise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
19	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
20	in	in	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	behind	behind	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	singing	sing	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
26	hateful	hateful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
27	pirate	pirate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	chorus	chorus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	procession	procession	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
32	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	acl	_	_
33	off	off	ADP	RP	_	32	compound:prt	_	_
34	through	through	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fling** | past · passive |  | the children |  | conveyance |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme into it=Destination |
| 2 | **raise** | past | four stout pirates | conveyance |  | children's shoulders |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme on shoulder=Destination |
| 3 | **fall in** | past | the others |  |  |  |  | behind *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **sing** *speech: express* | gerund |  | the hateful pirate chorus |  |  |  |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent chorus=Beneficiary procession=Theme |
| 5 | **set off** | participle |  | the strange procession *not said here* |  | the wood |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme through wood=Initial\_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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