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title: John lived in a boat turned upside down on the sands, Michael in a w… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: John lived in a boat turned upside down on the sands, Michael in a wigwam, Wendy in a house of leaves deftly sewn together. Who acts: John, Wendy, Michael. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter I. PETER BREAKS THROUGH, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Peter Pan, Chapter I. PETER BREAKS THROUGH, sentence 68

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John lived in a boat turned upside down on the sands, Michael in a wigwam, Wendy in a house of leaves deftly sewn together.

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**Who acts:** John, Wendy, Michael · **What happens:** live, turn upside, leave, sew · **To what, where:** boat, sands, Michael

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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, Wendy, Michael), 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:pg16:2:68
# text = John lived in a boat turned upside down on the sands, Michael in a wigwam, Wendy in a house of leaves deftly sewn together.
1	John	John	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	boat	boat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	turned	turn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
7	upside	upside	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	down	down	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	sands	sand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	Michael	Michael	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	wigwam	wigwam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	Wendy	Wendy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	appos	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
23	leaves	leave	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
24	deftly	deftly	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	sewn	sew	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	xcomp	_	_
26	together	together	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | past | John |  |  | a boat |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in boat=Location |
| 2 | **turn upside** | participle |  | a boat *not said here* |  | the sands |  | down *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on sand=Trajectory |
| 3 | **leave** | present | Wendy | Michael in a wigwam *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **sew** | participle | Michael in a wigwam *not said here* |  |  |  |  | deftly, together *property* | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |

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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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