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title: They have been planning it out on the ship: mother’s rapture, father… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: They have been planning it out on the ship: mother’s rapture, father’s shout of joy, Nana’s leap through the air to embrace them first, when what they ought to be prepared for is a good hiding. Who acts: children, father, Nana. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XVI. THE RETURN HOME,
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# Peter Pan, Chapter XVI. THE RETURN HOME, sentence 28

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They have been planning it out on the ship: mother’s rapture, father’s shout of joy, Nana’s leap through the air to embrace them first, when what they ought to be prepared for is a good hiding.

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**Who acts:** children, father, Nana · **What happens:** plan out, embrace, prepare, be, shout, leap · **To what, where:** surprise, ship, children, good hiding, joy

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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 (children, father, Nana), 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:pg16:17:28
# text = They have been planning it out on the ship: mother’s rapture, father’s shout of joy, Nana’s leap through the air to embrace them first, when what they ought to be prepared for is a good hiding.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	aux	_	_
4	planning	plan	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	43	advcl	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	out	out	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
11	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	’s	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	rapture	rapture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	’s	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
17	shout	shout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	Nana	Nana	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	’s	's	PART	POS	_	21	case	_	_
23	leap	leap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
24	through	through	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	embrace	embrace	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
29	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	28	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
32	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	38	advmod	_	_
33	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	38	obj	_	_
34	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj:pass	_	_
35	ought	ought	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
36	to	to	PART	TO	_	38	mark	_	_
37	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	aux:pass	_	_
38	prepared	prepare	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
39	for	for	ADP	IN	_	38	obl	_	_
40	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	43	cop	_	_
41	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
42	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	hiding	hiding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	43	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **plan out** | present · perfect · progressive | children *= child* | surprise |  | the ship |  | through the air | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
| 2 | **embrace** | to-infinitive | children *= child* *not said here* | children *= child* |  |  |  | first *property* | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **prepare** | ought · passive |  | children *= child* |  |  |  |  | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary what=Product |
| 4 | **is a** | present |  | a good hiding |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **shout** |  | father | joy |  |  |  |  | nom shout «communication transitive»: poss=agent of=patient |
| 6 | **leap** |  | Nana |  |  |  |  |  | nom leap «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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