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description: The dream by itself would have been a trifle, but while she was dreaming the window of the nursery blew open, and a boy did drop on the floor. Who acts: dream, adventure, boy. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter I. PETER BREAKS THROUGH, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# Peter Pan, Chapter I. PETER BREAKS THROUGH, sentence 134

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The dream by itself would have been a trifle, but while she was dreaming the window of the nursery blew open, and a boy did drop on the floor.

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**Who acts:** dream, adventure, boy · **What happens:** be, dream, blow, drop · **To what, where:** trifle, window, floor

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This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter I. PETER BREAKS THROUGH. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dream, adventure, boy), 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:pg16:2:134
# text = The dream by itself would have been a trifle, but while she was dreaming the window of the nursery blew open, and a boy did drop on the floor.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	dream	dream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
3	by	by	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes	2	nmod	_	_
5	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
6	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	aux	_	_
7	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	cop	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	trifle	trifle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
12	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
13	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	dreaming	dream	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	advcl	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	nursery	nursery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	blew	blow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
22	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
27	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	drop	drop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	conj	_	_
29	on	on	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | would · perfect | the dream by dream | a trifle |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **dream** | past · progressive | adventure | the window of the nursery |  |  |  |  | vn cognize-85 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent window=Topic |
| 3 | **blow** | past |  |  |  |  |  | open *property* | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **drop** | past · do-support | a boy |  |  | the floor |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on floor=Trajectory |
| 5 | **dream** |  | dream |  |  |  |  |  | nom dream «cognition transitive»: by=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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