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title: She went from bed to bed singing enchantments over them, and little… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: She went from bed to bed singing enchantments over them, and little Michael flung his arms round her. Who acts: Mrs., little Michael. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter II. THE SHADOW, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Peter Pan, Chapter II. THE SHADOW, sentence 189

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She went from bed to bed singing enchantments over them, and little Michael flung his arms round her.

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**Who acts:** Mrs., little Michael · **What happens:** go, sing, fling · **To what, where:** bed, enchantments, arms

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This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter II. THE SHADOW. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mrs., little 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:pg16:3:189
# text = She went from bed to bed singing enchantments over them, and little Michael flung his arms round her.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	singing	sing	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
8	enchantments	enchantment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
9	over	over	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	Michael	Michael	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	flung	fling	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
18	round	round	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | Mrs. |  |  | bed |  | to bed | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from bed=Initial\_Location to bed=Destination |
| 2 | **sing** *speech: express* | gerund | Mrs. *not said here* | enchantments |  |  |  | over lights *= light* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location enchantment=Theme |
| 3 | **fling** | past | little Michael | Michael's arms |  |  |  | round Mrs. | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Theme |

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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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