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description: Captain Pan calculated, after consulting the ship’s chart, that if this weather lasted they should strike the Azores about the 21st of June, after which it would save time to fly. Who acts: Captain, weather, orders. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XVI. THE RETURN HOME, with its de
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# Peter Pan, Chapter XVI. THE RETURN HOME, sentence 10

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Captain Pan calculated, after consulting the ship’s chart, that if this weather lasted they should strike the Azores about the 21st of June, after which it would save time to fly.

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**Who acts:** Captain, weather, orders · **What happens:** calculate, consult, last, strike, save, fly · **To what, where:** chart, Azores, ship

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This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XVI. THE RETURN HOME. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Captain, weather, orders), 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:pg16:17:10
# text = Captain Pan calculated, after consulting the ship’s chart, that if this weather lasted they should strike the Azores about the 21st of June, after which it would save time to fly.
1	Captain	Captain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Pan	Pan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	calculated	calculate	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
6	consulting	consult	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	’s	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	chart	chart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
13	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	det	_	_
15	weather	weather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	lasted	last	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	strike	strike	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	Azores	Azore	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
22	about	about	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	21st	21st	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	19	obl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	June	June	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
28	after	after	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	32	obl	_	_
30	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
31	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	save	save	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	parataxis	_	_
33	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
34	to	to	PART	TO	_	35	mark	_	_
35	fly	fly	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **calculate** | past | Captain |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **consult** | gerund | Captain *not said here* | the ship's chart |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chart=Theme |
| 3 | **last** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | this weather |  |  |  |  |  | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **strike** | should | orders *= order* | the Azores |  |  |  | about the 21st of June | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent azore=Instrument |
| 5 | **save** | would | weather |  |  |  | time |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **fly** | to-infinitive | weather *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **chart** |  |  | the ship |  |  |  |  | nom chart «communication transitive»: poss=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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