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description: Now I understand what had hitherto puzzled me, why when Peter had exterminated the pirates he did not return to the island and leave Tink to escort the children to the mainland. Who acts: I, Peter, Wendy, Tink. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XVI. THE RETURN HOME, with its depende
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# Peter Pan, Chapter XVI. THE RETURN HOME, sentence 102

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Now I understand what had hitherto puzzled me, why when Peter had exterminated the pirates he did not return to the island and leave Tink to escort the children to the mainland.

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**Who acts:** I, Peter, Wendy, Tink · **What happens:** understand, puzzle, exterminate, not return, leave, escort · **To what, where:** me, pirates, Tink, children, mainland · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (I, Peter, Wendy, Tink), 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:pg16:17:102
# text = Now I understand what had hitherto puzzled me, why when Peter had exterminated the pirates he did not return to the island and leave Tink to escort the children to the mainland.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	understand	understand	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	obj	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	hitherto	hitherto	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	puzzled	puzzle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	ccomp	_	_
8	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	14	advmod	_	_
11	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	14	advmod	_	_
12	Peter	Peter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
13	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	exterminated	exterminate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	pirates	pirate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
18	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
20	return	return	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	parataxis	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	conj	_	_
26	Tink	Tink	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	escort	escort	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	xcomp	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obj	_	_
31	to	to	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	mainland	mainland	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **understand** | present | I |  |  |  | now |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **puzzle** | past · perfect |  | me |  |  |  | hitherto *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Stimulus what=Experiencer i=Result |
| 3 | **exterminate** | past · perfect | Peter | the pirates |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pirate=Patient |
| 4 | **not** **return** | past · do-support | Wendy |  |  |  |  | to the island *result* | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to island=Result |
| 5 | **leave** | infinitive | Wendy *not said here* | Tink |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **escort** | to-infinitive | Tink *not said here* | the children |  | the mainland |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent child=Theme to mainland=Destination |

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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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