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title: The other boys were flying around him now, flouting, scornful; and h… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: The other boys were flying around him now, flouting, scornful; and he staggered about the deck striking up at them impotently, his mind was no longer with them; it was slouching in the playing fields of long ago, or being sent up for good, or watching the wall-game from a famous wall. Who acts: othe
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# Peter Pan, Chapter XV. “HOOK OR ME THIS TIME”, sentence 178

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The other boys were flying around him now, flouting, scornful; and he staggered about the deck striking up at them impotently, his mind was no longer with them; it was slouching in the playing fields of long ago, or being sent up for good, or watching the wall-game from a famous wall.

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**Who acts:** other boys, Peter, deck, mind · **What happens:** fly, flout, stagger, strike up, not be, slouch · **To what, where:** playing fields, wall game, famous wall

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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 (other boys, Peter, deck, mind), 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:pg16:16:178
# text = The other boys were flying around him now, flouting, scornful; and he staggered about the deck striking up at them impotently, his mind was no longer with them; it was slouching in the playing fields of long ago, or being sent up for good, or watching the wall-game from a famous wall.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	flying	fly	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	around	around	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	_
8	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	flouting	flout	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	scornful	scornful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	staggered	stagger	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
17	about	about	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	deck	deck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	striking	strike	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	acl	_	_
21	up	up	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	_
22	at	at	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	_
24	impotently	impotently	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
28	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
29	no	no	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	16	advmod	_	_
31	with	with	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
34	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
35	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
36	slouching	slouch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
37	in	in	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	playing	playing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	compound	_	_
40	fields	field	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	obl	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	43	advmod	_	_
43	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	40	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
45	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
46	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	47	aux:pass	_	_
47	sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	36	parataxis	_	_
48	up	up	ADP	RP	_	47	compound:prt	_	_
49	for	for	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
50	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
52	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	53	cc	_	_
53	watching	watch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	47	advcl	_	_
54	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	57	det	_	_
55	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	55	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	obj	_	_
58	from	from	ADP	IN	_	61	case	_	_
59	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	61	det	_	_
60	famous	famous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	61	amod	_	_
61	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly** | past · progressive | the other boys |  |  |  | now | around Peter | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent around he=Location |
| 2 | **flout** | gerund | the other boys *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **stagger** | past | Peter |  |  |  |  | about the deck | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about deck=Trajectory |
| 4 | **strike up** | gerund | the deck *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at boys *= boy*; impotently *property* | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **not** **is** | past | Peter's mind |  |  |  |  | with boys *= boy*; long *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **slouch** | past · progressive | mind |  |  | the playing fields |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in field=Location |
| 7 | **send up** | gerund · passive |  |  |  |  |  | for good | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP» |
| 8 | **watch** | gerund |  | the wall game |  | a famous wall |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Theme |
| 9 | **mind** |  | Peter |  |  |  |  |  | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=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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