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description: Of course all the boys went to school; and most of them got into Class III, but Slightly was put first into Class IV and then into Class V. Class I is the top class. Who acts: boys, most, I. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XVII. WHEN WENDY GREW UP, with its dependency tree and the
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# Peter Pan, Chapter XVII. WHEN WENDY GREW UP, sentence 86

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Of course all the boys went to school; and most of them got into Class III, but Slightly was put first into Class IV and then into Class V. Class I is the top class.

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**Who acts:** boys, most, I · **What happens:** go, get, put, be · **To what, where:** school, Class, top class, Class V. Class

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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 (boys, most, I), 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:pg16:18:86
# text = Of course all the boys went to school; and most of them got into Class III, but Slightly was put first into Class IV and then into Class V. Class I is the top class.
1	Of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	fixed	_	_
3	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	5	det:predet	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	14	nsubj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nmod	_	_
14	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
15	into	into	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Class	Class	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
17	III	III	NUM	CD	NumForm=Roman|NumType=Card	16	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	Slightly	slightly	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	parataxis	_	_
23	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	22	advmod	_	_
24	into	into	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	Class	Class	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
26	IV	IV	NUM	CD	NumForm=Roman|NumType=Card	25	flat	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
28	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	37	advmod	_	_
29	into	into	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	Class	Class	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
31	V.	V.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	Class	Class	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
33	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
34	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	37	cop	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	top	top	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	class	class	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | all boys |  |  | school |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to school=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **get** | past | most of boys |  |  | Class |  |  | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into class=Destination |
| 3 | **put** | past · passive |  |  |  | Class |  | first, slightly *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP» |
| 4 | **is a** | present | I | the top class |  | Class V. Class | then |  | 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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