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title: He gave a cry of pain; and when the tall beautiful creature stooped… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: He gave a cry of pain; and when the tall beautiful creature stooped to lift him in her arms he drew back sharply. Who acts: Peter, tall beautiful creature, pain. 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 220

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He gave a cry of pain; and when the tall beautiful creature stooped to lift him in her arms he drew back sharply.

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**Who acts:** Peter, tall beautiful creature, pain · **What happens:** give, stoop, lift, draw back, cry · **To what, where:** cry, Peter, arms

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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, tall beautiful creature, pain), 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:pg16:18:220
# text = He gave a cry of pain; and when the tall beautiful creature stooped to lift him in her arms he drew back sharply.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	cry	cry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	pain	pain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
9	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	14	advmod	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	creature	creature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	stooped	stoop	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	lift	lift	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
17	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
23	back	back	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	sharply	sharply	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past | Peter | a cry of pain |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cry=Theme |
| 2 | **stoop** | participle | the tall beautiful creature |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **lift** | to-infinitive | the tall beautiful creature *not said here* | Peter |  | creature's arms |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme in arm=Destination |
| 4 | **draw back** | past | Peter | creature's arms *not said here* |  |  |  | sharply *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Theme |
| 5 | **cry** |  | pain |  |  |  |  |  | nom cry «communication intransitive»: of=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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