--- title: Some of them wanted it to be an honest ship and others were in favou… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics description: Some of them wanted it to be an honest ship and others were in favour of keeping it a pirate; but the captain treated them as dogs, and they dared not express their wishes to him even in a round robin. Who acts: Some, chart, others, favour. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XVI. THE --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/17/11/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Peter Pan](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/) / [Chapter XVI. THE RETURN HOME](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/17/) / 11 # Peter Pan, Chapter XVI. THE RETURN HOME, sentence 11 Some of them wanted it to be an honest ship and others were in favour of keeping it a pirate; but the captain treated them as dogs, and they dared not express their wishes to him even in a round robin. **Who acts:** Some, chart, others, favour, captain, orders · **What happens:** want, be, keep, treat, express, wish · **To what, where:** chart, honest ship, favour, orders, wishes, captain 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 (Some, chart, others, favour), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg16:17:11 # text = Some of them wanted it to be an honest ship and others were in favour of keeping it a pirate; but the captain treated them as dogs, and they dared not express their wishes to him even in a round robin. 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 4 nsubj _ _ 2 of of ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 1 nmod _ _ 4 wanted want VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 obj _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 7 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 10 cop _ _ 8 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 honest honest ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 ship ship NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 xcomp _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 12 others other NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nsubj _ _ 13 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 favour favour NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ _ 16 of of SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 17 keeping keep VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 15 acl _ _ 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obj _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 pirate pirate NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 ; ; PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 22 but but CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 captain captain NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 25 treated treat VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 26 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 obj _ _ 27 as as ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 dogs dog NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 31 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 32 dared dare VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 33 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 32 advmod _ _ 34 express express VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 conj _ _ 35 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 36 nmod:poss _ _ 36 wishes wish NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 obj _ _ 37 to to ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 obl _ _ 39 even even ADV RB _ 43 advmod _ _ 40 in in ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 41 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 42 round round ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 amod _ _ 43 robin robin NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **want** | past | Some | chart | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme | | 2 | **is a** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | chart *not said here* | a honest ship and favour | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **is** | past | others | | | favour | | | tree rules | | 4 | **keep** | gerund | favour *not said here* | chart | | | | | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent it=Theme pirate=Attribute | | 5 | **treat** | past | the captain | orders *= order* | | | | as dogs | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent they=Theme as dog=Attribute | | 6 | **express** | past | orders *= order* | orders's wishes | captain | a round robin | | | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent wish=Theme to he=Recipient | | 7 | **wish** | | orders *= order* | | | | | | nom wish «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/17/10/) - next →: [sentence 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/17/12/) - ↑ back to [Chapter XVI. THE RETURN HOME](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/17/)