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title: They all donned pirate clothes cut off at the knee, shaved smartly,… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: They all donned pirate clothes cut off at the knee, shaved smartly, and tumbled up, with the true nautical roll and hitching their trousers. Who acts: bells. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XVI. THE RETURN HOME, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Peter Pan, Chapter XVI. THE RETURN HOME, sentence 2

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They all donned pirate clothes cut off at the knee, shaved smartly, and tumbled up, with the true nautical roll and hitching their trousers.

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**Who acts:** bells · **What happens:** don, cut off, shave, tumble up, hitch · **To what, where:** knee, trousers

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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 (bells), 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:pg16:17:2
# text = They all donned pirate clothes cut off at the knee, shaved smartly, and tumbled up, with the true nautical roll and hitching their trousers.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
2	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
3	donned	don	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	amod	_	_
4	pirate	pirate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	6	nsubj	_	_
6	cut	cut	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	off	off	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	knee	knee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	shaved	shave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
13	smartly	smartly	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	tumbled	tumble	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	conj	_	_
17	up	up	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
21	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
22	nautical	nautical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	roll	roll	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	parataxis	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	hitching	hitch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	conj	_	_
26	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	trousers	trousers	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **don** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn simple\_dressing-41.3.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **cut off** | present | bells *= bell* |  |  | the knee |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 3 | **shave** | participle | bells *= bell* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | smartly *property* | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **tumble up** | participle | bells *= bell* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 5 | **hitch** | gerund | bells *= bell* *not said here* | bells's trousers |  |  |  |  | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trousers=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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