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title: They are now embarked on the great adventure of the night when Peter… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: They are now embarked on the great adventure of the night when Peter flew in looking for his shadow. Who acts: Peter. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XVII. WHEN WENDY GREW UP, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Peter Pan, Chapter XVII. WHEN WENDY GREW UP, sentence 161

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They are now embarked on the great adventure of the night when Peter flew in looking for his shadow.

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**Who acts:** Peter · **What happens:** embark, fly, look, adventure, shadow · **To what, where:** boys, great adventure, night

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This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XVII. WHEN WENDY GREW UP. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Peter), 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:pg16:18:161
# text = They are now embarked on the great adventure of the night when Peter flew in looking for his shadow.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
3	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
4	embarked	embark	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	adventure	adventure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	14	advmod	_	_
13	Peter	Peter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
15	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
16	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	shadow	shadow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **embark** | present · passive |  | boys *= boy* |  | the great adventure of the night | now |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **fly** | past | Peter |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **look** | gerund | Peter *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for Peter's shadow | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for shadow=Theme |
| 4 | **adventure** |  |  | the night |  |  |  |  | nom adventure «act transitive»: of=patient |
| 5 | **shadow** |  | Peter |  |  |  |  |  | nom shadow «state 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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