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title: He rose out of it into the arms of Cecco, who flung him to Smee, who… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: He rose out of it into the arms of Cecco, who flung him to Smee, who flung him to Starkey, who flung him to Bill Jukes, who flung him to Noodler, and so he was tossed from one to another till he fell at the feet of the black pirate. Who acts: horror, Cecco, Smee, Starkey. A sentence of «Peter Pan» b
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# Peter Pan, Chapter XIII. DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES?, sentence 3

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He rose out of it into the arms of Cecco, who flung him to Smee, who flung him to Starkey, who flung him to Bill Jukes, who flung him to Noodler, and so he was tossed from one to another till he fell at the feet of the black pirate.

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**Who acts:** horror, Cecco, Smee, Starkey, Bill · **What happens:** rise, fling, toss, fall · **To what, where:** tree, horror, Smee, Starkey, Bill, Noodler

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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 (horror, Cecco, Smee, Starkey), 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:pg16:14:3
# text = He rose out of it into the arms of Cecco, who flung him to Smee, who flung him to Starkey, who flung him to Bill Jukes, who flung him to Noodler, and so he was tossed from one to another till he fell at the feet of the black pirate.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	out	out	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	_
6	into	into	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Cecco	Cecco	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	flung	fling	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
14	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Smee	Smee	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
19	flung	fling	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
20	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Starkey	Starkey	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
25	flung	fling	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	_
26	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	Bill	Bill	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
29	Jukes	Jukes	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	32	nsubj	_	_
32	flung	fling	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	acl:relcl	_	_
33	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obj	_	_
34	to	to	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	Noodler	Noodler	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
38	so	so	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
39	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
40	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	aux:pass	_	_
41	tossed	toss	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
42	from	from	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	41	obl	_	_
44	to	to	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	46	det	_	_
46	till	till	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nmod	_	_
47	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	48	nsubj	_	_
48	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	46	acl:relcl	_	_
49	at	at	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	48	obl	_	_
52	of	of	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
53	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
54	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	55	amod	_	_
55	pirate	pirate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rise** | past | horror |  |  | tree |  | into the arms of Cecco | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme out it=Initial\_Location into arm=Destination |
| 2 | **fling** | past | Cecco | horror | Smee |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent he=Theme to smee=Destination |
| 3 | **fling** | past | Smee | horror | Starkey |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent he=Theme to starkey=Destination |
| 4 | **fling** | past | Starkey | horror | Bill |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent he=Theme to bill=Destination |
| 5 | **fling** | past | Bill | horror | Noodler |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent he=Theme to noodler=Destination |
| 6 | **toss** | past · passive |  | horror |  |  |  | from one to another till | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Product from one=Material |
| 7 | **fall** | past | horror | another till *not said here* |  | the feet of the black pirate |  |  | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient till=Result |

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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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