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title: At first Nana tied their feet to the bed-posts so that they should n… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: At first Nana tied their feet to the bed-posts so that they should not fly away in the night; and one of their diversions by day was to pretend to fall off buses; but by and by they ceased to tug at their bonds in bed, and found that they hurt themselves when they let go of the bus. Who acts: boys, 
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# Peter Pan, Chapter XVII. WHEN WENDY GREW UP, sentence 89

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At first Nana tied their feet to the bed-posts so that they should not fly away in the night; and one of their diversions by day was to pretend to fall off buses; but by and by they ceased to tug at their bonds in bed, and found that they hurt themselves when they let go of the bus.

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**Who acts:** boys, one, day · **What happens:** tie, not fly away, be, fall off, cease, tug · **To what, where:** feet, first Nana, buses, boys · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, one, day), 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:pg16:18:89
# text = At first Nana tied their feet to the bed-posts so that they should not fly away in the night; and one of their diversions by day was to pretend to fall off buses; but by and by they ceased to tug at their bonds in bed, and found that they hurt themselves when they let go of the bus.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	3	amod	_	_
3	Nana	Nana	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
4	tied	tie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	posts	post	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
12	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	17	mark	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	fixed	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
15	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
17	fly	fly	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
18	away	away	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
24	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	32	nsubj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	diversions	diversion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	_
28	by	by	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
30	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	pretend	pretend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
33	to	to	PART	TO	_	34	mark	_	_
34	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	xcomp	_	_
35	off	off	ADP	RP	_	34	compound:prt	_	_
36	buses	bus	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
38	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
39	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	43	mark	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
41	by	by	ADP	IN	_	39	conj	_	_
42	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	nsubj	_	_
43	ceased	cease	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
44	to	to	PART	TO	_	45	mark	_	_
45	tug	tug	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	43	xcomp	_	_
46	at	at	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	48	nmod:poss	_	_
48	bonds	bond	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	45	obl	_	_
49	in	in	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
50	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
52	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	53	cc	_	_
53	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	43	conj	_	_
54	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	56	mark	_	_
55	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	56	nsubj	_	_
56	hurt	hurt	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	53	ccomp	_	_
57	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	56	obj	_	_
58	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	60	advmod	_	_
59	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	60	nsubj	_	_
60	let	let	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	56	advcl	_	_
61	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	60	xcomp	_	_
62	of	of	ADP	IN	_	64	case	_	_
63	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	64	det	_	_
64	bus	bus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	61	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
65	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tie** | past |  | boys's feet |  | first Nana |  | to the bed posts | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent foot=Patient to post=Co-Patient |
| 2 | **not** **fly away** | should | boys *= boy* |  |  |  | night | away *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past | one of boys's diversions by day |  |  |  |  | pretend *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **fall off** | to-infinitive | one of boys's diversions by day *not said here* | buses |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient bus=Extent |
| 5 | **cease** | past | boys *= boy* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality |
| 6 | **tug** | to-infinitive | boys *= boy* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | in bed; at boys's bonds | vn push-12-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent at bond=Theme |
| 7 | **find** | past | boys *= boy* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 8 | **hurt** | past | boys *= boy* | boys *= boy* |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer themselves=Patient |
| 9 | **let** | past | boys *= boy* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 10 | **go** | infinitive | boys *= boy* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of the bus | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme of bus=Initial\_Location |
| 11 | **divert** |  | day | boys *= boy* |  |  |  |  | nom diversion «act transitive»: poss=patient by=agent |
| 12 | **bond** |  | boys *= boy* |  |  |  |  |  | nom bond «phenomenon 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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