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title: In the cabin he had found the thing for which he had gone in search:… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: In the cabin he had found the thing for which he had gone in search: the key that would free the children of their manacles, and now they all stole forth, armed with such weapons as they could find. Who acts: reluctance, things. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XV. “HOOK OR ME THIS
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# Peter Pan, Chapter XV. “HOOK OR ME THIS TIME”, sentence 116

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In the cabin he had found the thing for which he had gone in search: the key that would free the children of their manacles, and now they all stole forth, armed with such weapons as they could find.

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**Who acts:** reluctance, things · **What happens:** find, go, steal · **To what, where:** thing, cabin, search

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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 (reluctance, things), 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:pg16:16:116
# text = In the cabin he had found the thing for which he had gone in search: the key that would free the children of their manacles, and now they all stole forth, armed with such weapons as they could find.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	cabin	cabin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	obl	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	acl:relcl	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	search	search	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	key	key	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
19	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
20	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	parataxis	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	manacles	manacle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
29	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	32	advmod	_	_
30	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
31	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	32	advmod	_	_
32	stole	steal	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	parataxis	_	_
33	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
35	armed	armed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	conj	_	_
36	with	with	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	weapons	weapon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obl	_	_
39	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	42	mark	_	_
40	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
41	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	42	aux	_	_
42	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | past · perfect | reluctance | the thing |  | the cabin |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Topic |
| 2 | **go** | past · perfect | reluctance |  |  | search |  | for the thing | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for which=Theme in search=Location |
| 3 | **steal** | past | things *= thing* |  |  |  | now | forth *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **find** | could | things *= thing* |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=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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