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title: Some of the miscreants leapt into the sea; others hid in dark recess… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: Some of the miscreants leapt into the sea; others hid in dark recesses, where they were found by Slightly, who did not fight, but ran about with a lantern which he flashed in their faces, so that they were half blinded and fell as an easy prey to the reeking swords of the other boys. Who acts: miscr
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# Peter Pan, Chapter XV. “HOOK OR ME THIS TIME”, sentence 142

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Some of the miscreants leapt into the sea; others hid in dark recesses, where they were found by Slightly, who did not fight, but ran about with a lantern which he flashed in their faces, so that they were half blinded and fell as an easy prey to the reeking swords of the other boys.

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**Who acts:** miscreants, others, dark recesses, lantern · **What happens:** leapt, hide, find, not fight, run about, flash · **To what, where:** sea, dark recesses, others, faces, miscreants

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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 (miscreants, others, dark recesses, lantern), 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:pg16:16:142
# text = Some of the miscreants leapt into the sea; others hid in dark recesses, where they were found by Slightly, who did not fight, but ran about with a lantern which he flashed in their faces, so that they were half blinded and fell as an easy prey to the reeking swords of the other boys.
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	4	det	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	miscreants	miscreant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	leapt	leapt	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	into	into	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	hid	hide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	recesses	recess	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	19	advmod	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl	_	_
20	by	by	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Slightly	slightly	ADV	RB	_	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
24	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
26	fight	fight	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
30	about	about	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
31	with	with	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	lantern	lantern	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
34	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	36	nsubj	_	_
35	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
36	flashed	flash	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	acl:relcl	_	_
37	in	in	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	faces	face	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
41	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	46	mark	_	_
42	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	41	fixed	_	_
43	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	nsubj:pass	_	_
44	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	46	aux:pass	_	_
45	half	half	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	46	advmod	_	_
46	blinded	blind	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	parataxis	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
48	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	46	conj	_	_
49	as	as	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
50	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
51	easy	easy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	52	amod	_	_
52	prey	prey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obl	_	_
53	to	to	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
54	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
55	reeking	reek	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	56	amod	_	_
56	swords	sword	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	48	obl	_	_
57	of	of	ADP	IN	_	60	case	_	_
58	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	60	det	_	_
59	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	60	amod	_	_
60	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	56	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leapt** | present | some miscreants |  |  | the sea |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **hide** | past | others |  |  | dark recesses |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in recess=Location |
| 3 | **find** | past · passive |  | others *= other* |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
| 4 | **not** **fight** | past · do-support | dark recesses |  |  |  |  |  | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **run about** | past | others *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with a lantern; about *property* | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent with lantern=Material |
| 6 | **flash** | past | a lantern |  |  | others's faces |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in face=Location |
| 7 | **blind** | past · passive |  | miscreants *= miscreant* |  |  |  | half *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **fall** | past |  |  |  |  |  | as a easy prey; to the reeking swords of the other boys | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to sword=Theme |
| 9 | **reek** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn smell\_emission-43.3 «NP V»: 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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