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# Peter Pan, Chapter XIV. THE PIRATE SHIP, sentence 62

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His dogs thinking him out of the way for a time, discipline instantly relaxed; and they broke into a bacchanalian dance, which brought him to his feet at once, all traces of human weakness gone, as if a bucket of water had passed over him.

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**Who acts:** dogs, bacchanalian dance, traces · **What happens:** think, break, bring, go, pass · **To what, where:** Hook, way, bacchanalian dance, feet, bucket

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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 (dogs, bacchanalian dance, traces), 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:pg16:15:62
# text = His dogs thinking him out of the way for a time, discipline instantly relaxed; and they broke into a bacchanalian dance, which brought him to his feet at once, all traces of human weakness gone, as if a bucket of water had passed over him.
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
3	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	out	out	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	discipline	discipline	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
14	instantly	instantly	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	relaxed	relaxed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	broke	break	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
20	into	into	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	bacchanalian	bacchanalian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	dance	dance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
26	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	acl:relcl	_	_
27	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	_
31	at	at	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	35	det	_	_
35	traces	trace	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	nsubj	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	weakness	weakness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	_
39	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
41	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	48	mark	_	_
42	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	48	mark	_	_
43	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	bucket	bucket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	nsubj:pass	_	_
45	of	of	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
46	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nmod	_	_
47	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	48	aux	_	_
48	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	39	conj	_	_
49	over	over	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
50	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	48	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | gerund | Hook's dogs *not said here* | Hook |  | the way for a time and discipline |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot he=Theme |
| 2 | **break** | past | Hook's dogs |  |  | a bacchanalian dance |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at once=Location |
| 3 | **bring** | past | a bacchanalian dance | Hook |  | Hook's feet |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to foot=Destination |
| 4 | **go** | participle | all traces of human weakness |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **pass** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · perfect · passive |  | a bucket of water |  |  |  | over Hook | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme over he=Destination |

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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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