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title: But as the boys gathered round her she had no thought, of course, sa… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: But as the boys gathered round her she had no thought, of course, save for them. Who acts: boys, porthole. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XIV. THE PIRATE SHIP, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Peter Pan, Chapter XIV. THE PIRATE SHIP, sentence 111

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But as the boys gathered round her she had no thought, of course, save for them.

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**Who acts:** boys, porthole · **What happens:** gather, have, save · **To what, where:** thought

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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 (boys, porthole), 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:pg16:15:111
# text = But as the boys gathered round her she had no thought, of course, save for them.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
2	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	gathered	gather	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
6	round	round	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	_
8	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	11	det	_	_
11	thought	thought	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADV	16	advmod	_	_
14	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	save	save	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gather** | past | the boys |  |  |  |  | round porthole | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **have** | past | porthole | no thought |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thought=Patient |
| 3 | **save** | infinitive | porthole *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for boys *= boy* | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent for they=Source |

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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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