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title: Left so fearfully alone, any other man would have lain with his eyes… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: Left so fearfully alone, any other man would have lain with his eyes shut where he fell: but the gigantic brain of Hook was still working, and under its guidance he crawled on the knees along the deck as far from the sound as he could go. Who acts: force, gigantic brain, brain. A sentence of «Peter 
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# Peter Pan, Chapter XIV. THE PIRATE SHIP, sentence 147

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Left so fearfully alone, any other man would have lain with his eyes shut where he fell: but the gigantic brain of Hook was still working, and under its guidance he crawled on the knees along the deck as far from the sound as he could go.

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**Who acts:** force, gigantic brain, brain · **What happens:** leave, lie, fall, work, crawl, go · **To what, where:** other man, guidance

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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 (force, gigantic brain, brain), 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:pg16:15:147
# text = Left so fearfully alone, any other man would have lain with his eyes shut where he fell: but the gigantic brain of Hook was still working, and under its guidance he crawled on the knees along the deck as far from the sound as he could go.
1	Left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	so	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	fearfully	fearfully	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
4	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
6	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	8	det	_	_
7	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	aux	_	_
11	lain	lie	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	conj	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
15	shut	shut	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	advcl	_	_
16	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	18	advmod	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
20	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	gigantic	gigantic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	brain	brain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	Hook	Hook	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
27	still	still	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	working	work	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
31	under	under	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	guidance	guidance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
34	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	crawled	crawl	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	conj	_	_
36	on	on	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	knees	knee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obl	_	_
39	along	along	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	deck	deck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
42	as	as	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	_
43	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	35	advmod	_	_
44	from	from	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	_
47	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	50	mark	_	_
48	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	50	nsubj	_	_
49	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	50	aux	_	_
50	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	43	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | alone, fearfully *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **lie** | would · perfect · passive |  | any other man |  |  |  | with force's eyes | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **fall** | past | force |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **work** | past · progressive | the gigantic brain of Hook |  |  |  | still |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **crawl** | past | force |  |  | brain's guidance |  | on the knees; along the deck; far *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under guidance=Trajectory |
| 6 | **go** | could | force |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **guide** |  | brain |  |  |  |  |  | nom guidance «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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