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title: All the boys were plucked from their trees in this ruthless manner;… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: All the boys were plucked from their trees in this ruthless manner; and several of them were in the air at a time, like bales of goods flung from hand to hand. Who acts: several. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XIII. DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES?, with its dependency tree and the pra
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# Peter Pan, Chapter XIII. DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES?, sentence 4

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All the boys were plucked from their trees in this ruthless manner; and several of them were in the air at a time, like bales of goods flung from hand to hand.

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**Who acts:** several · **What happens:** pluck, be, fling · **To what, where:** boys, trees, air, bales, hand

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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 (several), 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:pg16:14:4
# text = All the boys were plucked from their trees in this ruthless manner; and several of them were in the air at a time, like bales of goods flung from hand to hand.
1	All	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	3	det:predet	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	plucked	pluck	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	det	_	_
11	ruthless	ruthless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	manner	manner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
15	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	nsubj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nmod	_	_
18	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
22	at	at	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	like	like	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	bales	bale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	goods	goods	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	27	nmod	_	_
30	flung	fling	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	acl	_	_
31	from	from	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
33	to	to	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pluck** | past · passive |  | all boys |  | boys's trees in this ruthless manner |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme from tree=Source |
| 2 | **is** | past | several of boys |  |  | the air | time |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **fling** | participle |  | bales of goods *not said here* |  | hand |  | to hand | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent from hand=Initial\_Location to hand=Destination |

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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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