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title: It dried up any trickle of pity for him that may have remained in th… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: It dried up any trickle of pity for him that may have remained in the pirate’s infuriated breast. Who acts: house, pity. 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 27

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It dried up any trickle of pity for him that may have remained in the pirate’s infuriated breast.

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**Who acts:** house, pity · **What happens:** dry up, remain, infuriate, trickle · **To what, where:** trickle, that, infuriated breast

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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 (house, pity), 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:pg16:14:27
# text = It dried up any trickle of pity for him that may have remained in the pirate’s infuriated breast.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	dried	dry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	up	up	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	5	det	_	_
5	trickle	trickle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	pity	pity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	_
10	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	aux	_	_
13	remained	remain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	pirate	pirate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	’s	's	PART	POS	_	16	case	_	_
18	infuriated	infuriate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	amod	_	_
19	breast	breast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dry up** | past | house | any trickle of pity |  |  |  | for Hook | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient trickle=Result |
| 2 | **remain** | may · perfect · passive |  | that |  | the pirate's infuriated breast |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute |
| 3 | **infuriate** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **trickle** |  | pity |  |  |  |  |  | nom trickle «event intransitive»: of=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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