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title: Ofttimes he drew his sleeve across his face, but there was no dammin… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: Ofttimes he drew his sleeve across his face, but there was no damming that trickle. Who acts: Ofttimes, damming trickle. 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 34

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Ofttimes he drew his sleeve across his face, but there was no damming that trickle.

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**Who acts:** Ofttimes, damming trickle · **What happens:** draw, be, dam · **To what, where:** sleeve, face

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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 (Ofttimes, damming trickle), 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:pg16:15:34
# text = Ofttimes he drew his sleeve across his face, but there was no damming that trickle.
1	Ofttimes	ofttime	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	sleeve	sleeve	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	across	across	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	12	expl	_	_
12	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
13	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	16	det	_	_
14	damming	dam	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	amod	_	_
15	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	det	_	_
16	trickle	trickle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **draw** | past | Ofttimes | perspiration's sleeve |  | perspiration's face |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sleeve=Theme |
| 2 | **be** | past | no damming trickle |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **dam** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |

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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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