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title: Then for long he remained brooding; his hat of ill omen on the sward… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: Then for long he remained brooding; his hat of ill omen on the sward, so that any gentle breeze which had arisen might play refreshingly through his hair. Who acts: thing, gentle breeze. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XIII. DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES?, with its dependency tree and
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# Peter Pan, Chapter XIII. DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES?, sentence 29

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Then for long he remained brooding; his hat of ill omen on the sward, so that any gentle breeze which had arisen might play refreshingly through his hair.

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**Who acts:** thing, gentle breeze · **What happens:** remain, brood, arise, play · **To what, where:** hat, gentle breeze, hair

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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 (thing, gentle breeze), 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:pg16:14:29
# text = Then for long he remained brooding; his hat of ill omen on the sward, so that any gentle breeze which had arisen might play refreshingly through his hair.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
2	for	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	obl	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	remained	remain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	brooding	brood	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	hat	hat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	omen	omen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	sward	sward	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
17	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	26	mark	_	_
18	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	17	fixed	_	_
19	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	21	det	_	_
20	gentle	gentle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	breeze	breeze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
22	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	arisen	arise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	acl:relcl	_	_
25	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	play	play	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
27	refreshingly	refreshingly	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
28	through	through	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remain** | past | thing | thing's hat of ill omen on the sward |  |  | then |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **brood** | gerund | thing *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **arise** | past · perfect · passive |  | any gentle breeze |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **play** | might | any gentle breeze |  |  | thing's hair |  | refreshingly *property* | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=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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