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title: There was little sound to be heard but the clang of weapons, an occa… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: There was little sound to be heard but the clang of weapons, an occasional screech or splash, and Slightly monotonously counting—five—six—seven—eight—nine—ten—eleven. Who acts: little sound. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XV. “HOOK OR ME THIS TIME”, with its dependency tree and t
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# Peter Pan, Chapter XV. “HOOK OR ME THIS TIME”, sentence 143

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There was little sound to be heard but the clang of weapons, an occasional screech or splash, and Slightly monotonously counting—five—six—seven—eight—nine—ten—eleven.

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**Who acts:** little sound · **What happens:** be, hear, count, clang · **To what, where:** five, weapons

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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 (little sound), 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:pg16:16:143
# text = There was little sound to be heard but the clang of weapons, an occasional screech or splash, and Slightly monotonously counting—five—six—seven—eight—nine—ten—eleven.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	clang	clang	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	weapons	weapon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	occasional	occasional	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	screech	screech	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
17	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	splash	splash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	Slightly	slightly	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
22	monotonously	monotonously	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	counting	count	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	eight	eight	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	nine	nine	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	31	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	eleven	eleven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | little sound |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **hear** | to-infinitive · passive | little sound *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus» |
| 3 | **count** | gerund | little sound *not said here* | five |  |  |  | monotonously, slightly *property* | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent five=Theme |
| 4 | **clang** |  |  | weapons |  |  |  |  | nom clang «event transitive»: of=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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