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title: The open mouth, the drooping arm, the arched knee: they were such a… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: The open mouth, the drooping arm, the arched knee: they were such a personification of cockiness as, taken together, will never again, one may hope, be presented to eyes so sensitive to their offensiveness. Who acts: knees, open mouth. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XIII. DO YOU 
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# Peter Pan, Chapter XIII. DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES?, sentence 56

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The open mouth, the drooping arm, the arched knee: they were such a personification of cockiness as, taken together, will never again, one may hope, be presented to eyes so sensitive to their offensiveness.

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**Who acts:** knees, open mouth · **What happens:** droop, arch, be, take, hope, present · **To what, where:** personification, eyes

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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 (knees, open mouth), 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:pg16:14:56
# text = The open mouth, the drooping arm, the arched knee: they were such a personification of cockiness as, taken together, will never again, one may hope, be presented to eyes so sensitive to their offensiveness.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	drooping	droop	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	amod	_	_
7	arm	arm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	arched	arch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	amod	_	_
11	knee	knee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
13	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
14	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
15	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	17	det:predet	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	personification	personification	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	cockiness	cockiness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
20	as	as	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
22	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	advcl	_	_
23	together	together	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
25	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
26	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
27	again	again	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
29	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	31	nsubj	_	_
30	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	hope	hope	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	aux:pass	_	_
34	presented	present	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	conj	_	_
35	to	to	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obl	_	_
37	so	so	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
38	sensitive	sensitive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	xcomp	_	_
39	to	to	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	41	nmod:poss	_	_
41	offensiveness	offensiveness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	31	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **droop** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **arch** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | past | knees *= knee* | such personification |  |  |  | of cockiness | tree rules |
| 4 | **take** | participle | knees *= knee* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | together *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **hope** | may · future | the open mouth and the drooping arm and the arched knee and such personification |  |  |  | again |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 6 | **present** | infinitive · passive | the open mouth and the drooping arm and the arched knee and such personification *not said here* |  | eyes |  |  | sensitive *property* | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: to eye=Recipient |

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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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