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title: Peter reached the shore without mishap, and went straight on, his le… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: Peter reached the shore without mishap, and went straight on, his legs encountering the water as if quite unaware that they had entered a new element. Who acts: Peter, legs. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XV. “HOOK OR ME THIS TIME”, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# Peter Pan, Chapter XV. “HOOK OR ME THIS TIME”, sentence 10

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Peter reached the shore without mishap, and went straight on, his legs encountering the water as if quite unaware that they had entered a new element.

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**Who acts:** Peter, legs · **What happens:** reach, go, encounter, enter · **To what, where:** shore, water, new element

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This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XV. “HOOK OR ME THIS TIME”. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Peter, legs), 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:pg16:16:10
# text = Peter reached the shore without mishap, and went straight on, his legs encountering the water as if quite unaware that they had entered a new element.
1	Peter	Peter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	without	without	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	mishap	mishap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
10	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	on	on	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
15	encountering	encounter	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
19	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
20	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	unaware	unaware	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	advcl	_	_
22	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
23	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	entered	enter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	21	advcl	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	element	element	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reach** | past | Peter | the shore |  |  |  | without mishap | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent shore=Theme |
| 2 | **go** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **encounter** | gerund | Peter's legs | the water |  |  |  |  | vn encounter-30.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer water=Stimulus |
| 4 | **enter** | past · perfect | legs *= leg* | a new element |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme element=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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