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title: They are really within two miles of the window now, and flying stron… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: They are really within two miles of the window now, and flying strong, but all we need whisper is that they are on the way. Who acts: brats, we, all. 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 70

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They are really within two miles of the window now, and flying strong, but all we need whisper is that they are on the way.

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**Who acts:** brats, we, all · **What happens:** be, fly, need · **To what, where:** whisper, way

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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 (brats, we, all), 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:pg16:17:70
# text = They are really within two miles of the window now, and flying strong, but all we need whisper is that they are on the way.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	really	really	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
4	within	within	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
13	flying	fly	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	27	csubj	_	_
14	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
17	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	27	nsubj	_	_
18	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
20	whisper	whisper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
22	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
23	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
24	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
25	on	on	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	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 | **is** | present | brats *= brat* |  |  |  |  | within two miles and the way; of the window | tree rules |
| 2 | **fly** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | strong *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **need** | present | we | whisper |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot whisper=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | present | all |  |  | the way |  |  | tree rules |

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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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