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title: “Now then, bullies,” he said briskly, “six of you walk the plank to-… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: “Now then, bullies,” he said briskly, “six of you walk the plank to-night, but I have room for two cabin boys. Who acts: anon, six. 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 71

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“Now then, bullies,” he said briskly, “six of you walk the plank to-night, but I have room for two cabin boys.

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**Who acts:** anon, six · **What happens:** say, walk, have · **To what, where:** bullies, plank, room · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (anon, six), 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:pg16:15:71
# text = “Now then, bullies,” he said briskly, “six of you walk the plank to-night, but I have room for two cabin boys.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
3	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	bullies	bully	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	briskly	briskly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nsubj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	walk	walk	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	ccomp	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	plank	plank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
26	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
27	for	for	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	30	nummod	_	_
29	cabin	cabin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | anon | bullies |  |  |  | briskly *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **walk** *in a quote* | present | six | the plank |  |  | night |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme plank=Trajectory |
| 3 | **have** *in a quote* | present | anon | room |  |  |  | for two cabin boys | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=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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