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title: Seeing Peter slowly advancing upon him through the air with dagger p… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: Seeing Peter slowly advancing upon him through the air with dagger poised, he sprang upon the bulwarks to cast himself into the sea. Who acts: Peter. 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 182

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Seeing Peter slowly advancing upon him through the air with dagger poised, he sprang upon the bulwarks to cast himself into the sea.

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**Who acts:** Peter · **What happens:** see, advance, poise, spring, cast · **To what, where:** Peter, air, dagger, bulwarks, sea

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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 (Peter), 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:pg16:16:182
# text = Seeing Peter slowly advancing upon him through the air with dagger poised, he sprang upon the bulwarks to cast himself into the sea.
1	Seeing	see	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
2	Peter	Peter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
3	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
4	advancing	advance	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	advcl	_	_
5	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
7	through	through	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	dagger	dagger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
12	poised	poise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	sprang	spring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	bulwarks	bulwark	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	cast	cast	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	_
21	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	20	obj	_	_
22	into	into	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | gerund | Peter *not said here* | Peter |  |  |  | slowly *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer peter=Stimulus |
| 2 | **advance** | gerund | Peter *not said here* |  |  | the air |  | upon Peter; with dagger | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme through air=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **poise** | participle |  | dagger *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **spring** | past | Peter |  |  | the bulwarks |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon bulwark=Trajectory |
| 5 | **cast** | to-infinitive | Peter *not said here* | Peter |  | the sea |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent himself=Material into sea=Product |

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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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