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title: There was no more singing, all listened now; and again came a death-… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: There was no more singing, all listened now; and again came a death-screech and again a crow. Who acts: more singing. 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 67

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There was no more singing, all listened now; and again came a death-screech and again a crow.

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**Who acts:** more singing · **What happens:** be, listen, come · **To what, where:** all, death screech

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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 (more singing), 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:pg16:16:67
# text = There was no more singing, all listened now; and again came a death-screech and again a crow.
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	no	no	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	amod	_	_
5	singing	singing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	listened	listen	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
9	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	again	again	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	screech	screech	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	again	again	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	crow	crow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	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 | more singing |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **listen** | participle · passive | more singing *not said here* | all |  |  | now |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **come** | past |  | a death screech and a crow |  |  | again |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location screech=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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