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title: “Now!” cried all the boys, but with a magnificent gesture Peter invi… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: “Now!” cried all the boys, but with a magnificent gesture Peter invited his opponent to pick up his sword. Who acts: boys, magnificent gesture. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XV. “HOOK OR ME THIS TIME”, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Peter Pan, Chapter XV. “HOOK OR ME THIS TIME”, sentence 161

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“Now!” cried all the boys, but with a magnificent gesture Peter invited his opponent to pick up his sword.

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**Who acts:** boys, magnificent gesture · **What happens:** cry, invite, pick up · **To what, where:** opponent, sword

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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 (boys, magnificent gesture), 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:pg16:16:161
# text = “Now!” cried all the boys, but with a magnificent gesture Peter invited his opponent to pick up his sword.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
5	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	8	det:predet	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	magnificent	magnificent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	gesture	gesture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
15	Peter	Peter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	_
16	invited	invite	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	opponent	opponent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	pick	pick	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	advcl	_	_
21	up	up	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | all boys |  |  |  | now |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **invite** | past | a magnificent gesture | Peter's opponent |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent opponent=Recipient |
| 3 | **pick up** | to-infinitive | a magnificent gesture *not said here* | Peter's sword |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Topic |

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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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