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title: One green light squinting over Kidd’s Creek, which is near the mouth… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: One green light squinting over Kidd’s Creek, which is near the mouth of the pirate river, marked where the brig, the _Jolly Roger_, lay, low in the water; a rakish-looking craft foul to the hull, every beam in her detestable, like ground strewn with mangled feathers. Who acts: One green light, Creek
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# Peter Pan, Chapter XIV. THE PIRATE SHIP, sentence 1

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One green light squinting over Kidd’s Creek, which is near the mouth of the pirate river, marked where the brig, the \_Jolly Roger\_, lay, low in the water; a rakish-looking craft foul to the hull, every beam in her detestable, like ground strewn with mangled feathers.

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**Who acts:** One green light, Creek · **What happens:** squint, be, mark, lay, look, mangle · **To what, where:** mouth

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This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XIV. THE PIRATE SHIP. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One green light, Creek), 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:pg16:15:1
# text = One green light squinting over Kidd’s Creek, which is near the mouth of the pirate river, marked where the brig, the _Jolly Roger_, lay, low in the water; a rakish-looking craft foul to the hull, every beam in her detestable, like ground strewn with mangled feathers.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
2	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	squinting	squint	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
5	over	over	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	Kidd	Kidd	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	’s	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	Creek	Creek	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
12	near	near	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	pirate	pirate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	marked	mark	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
21	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	20	conj	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	brig	brig	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	Jolly	Jolly	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	appos	_	_
28	Roger	Roger	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
31	lay	lay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
33	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	advmod	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	43	punct	_	_
38	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
39	rakish	rakish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	39	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	looking	look	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	43	amod	_	_
42	craft	craft	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	compound	_	_
43	foul	foul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	parataxis	_	_
44	to	to	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	hull	hull	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
48	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	49	det	_	_
49	beam	beam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	conj	_	_
50	in	in	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
51	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	52	nmod:poss	_	_
52	detestable	detestable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
54	like	like	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
55	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	obl	_	_
56	strewn	strewn	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	55	amod	_	_
57	with	with	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
58	mangled	mangle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	59	amod	_	_
59	feathers	feather	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	56	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **squint** | gerund | One green light *not said here* |  |  |  |  | over Kidd's Creek | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent over creek=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | Kidd's Creek |  |  | the mouth |  | of the pirate river | tree rules |
| 3 | **mark** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **lay** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **look** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 6 | **mangle** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn carve-21.2-3 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |

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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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