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title: These he had boiled down into a yellow liquid quite unknown to scien… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: These he had boiled down into a yellow liquid quite unknown to science, which was probably the most virulent poison in existence. Who acts: science. 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 68

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These he had boiled down into a yellow liquid quite unknown to science, which was probably the most virulent poison in existence.

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**Who acts:** science · **What happens:** boil down, be · **To what, where:** These, yellow liquid, virulent poison, existence

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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 (science), 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:pg16:14:68
# text = These he had boiled down into a yellow liquid quite unknown to science, which was probably the most virulent poison in existence.
1	These	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	boiled	boil	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	down	down	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	into	into	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	liquid	liquid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	unknown	unknown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	science	science	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
15	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
17	probably	probably	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	20	advmod	_	_
20	virulent	virulent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	poison	poison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	existence	existence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **boil down** | past · perfect · passive |  | These |  | a yellow liquid |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
| 2 | **is a** | past | science and the virulent poison | the virulent poison |  | existence |  | probably *property* | tree rules |

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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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