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title: John’s, for instance, had a lagoon with flamingoes flying over it at… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: John’s, for instance, had a lagoon with flamingoes flying over it at which John was shooting, while Michael, who was very small, had a flamingo with lagoons flying over it. Who acts: John, flamingoes, Michael, lagoons. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter I. PETER BREAKS THROUGH, with 
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# Peter Pan, Chapter I. PETER BREAKS THROUGH, sentence 67

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John’s, for instance, had a lagoon with flamingoes flying over it at which John was shooting, while Michael, who was very small, had a flamingo with lagoons flying over it.

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**Who acts:** John, flamingoes, Michael, lagoons · **What happens:** have, fly, shoot, be · **To what, where:** lagoon, Michael, flamingo

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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 (John, flamingoes, Michael, lagoons), 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:pg16:2:67
# text = John’s, for instance, had a lagoon with flamingoes flying over it at which John was shooting, while Michael, who was very small, had a flamingo with lagoons flying over it.
1	John	John	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	’s	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	instance	instance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
7	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	lagoon	lagoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	flamingoes	flamingoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
12	flying	fly	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	acl	_	_
13	over	over	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	_
15	at	at	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
16	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
17	John	John	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	shooting	shoot	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
22	Michael	Michael	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
26	very	very	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	flamingo	flamingo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
32	with	with	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	lagoons	lagoon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nmod	_	_
34	flying	fly	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	33	acl	_	_
35	over	over	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | John | a lagoon |  |  |  | with flamingoes | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lagoon=Patient |
| 2 | **fly** | gerund | flamingoes *not said here* |  |  | lagoon |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over it=Location |
| 3 | **shoot** | past · progressive |  | Michael |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | past | Michael |  |  |  |  | small *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **have** | past | John *not said here* | a flamingo |  |  |  | with lagoons | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flamingo=Patient |
| 6 | **fly** | gerund | lagoons *not said here* |  |  | lagoon |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over it=Location |

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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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