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description: Instead of watching the ship, however, we must now return to that desolate home from which three of our characters had taken heartless flight so long ago. Who acts: we, that. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XVI. THE RETURN HOME, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# Peter Pan, Chapter XVI. THE RETURN HOME, sentence 16

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Instead of watching the ship, however, we must now return to that desolate home from which three of our characters had taken heartless flight so long ago.

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**Who acts:** we, that · **What happens:** watch, return, desolate, take · **To what, where:** ship, three

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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 (we, that), 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:pg16:17:16
# text = Instead of watching the ship, however, we must now return to that desolate home from which three of our characters had taken heartless flight so long ago.
1	Instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=SCONJ	3	mark	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	watching	watch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
7	however	however	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
10	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	12	advmod	_	_
12	return	return	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	nsubj	_	_
15	desolate	desolate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
16	home	home	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	obl	_	_
19	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	characters	character	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
23	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	parataxis	_	_
25	heartless	heartless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	flight	flight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	so	so	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	29	advmod	_	_
29	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **watch** | gerund | we *not said here* | the ship |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ship=Theme |
| 2 | **return** | must | we |  |  |  | now | however *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **desolate** | infinitive | that |  |  |  |  | home *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **take** | past · perfect · passive |  | three |  |  |  | of our characters; ago *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme flight=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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