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title: As he leapt at the window Nana had closed it quickly, too late to ca… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: As he leapt at the window Nana had closed it quickly, too late to catch him, but his shadow had not had time to get out; slam went the window and snapped it off. Who acts: boy, shadow, slam. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter II. THE SHADOW, with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# Peter Pan, Chapter II. THE SHADOW, sentence 5

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As he leapt at the window Nana had closed it quickly, too late to catch him, but his shadow had not had time to get out; slam went the window and snapped it off.

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**Who acts:** boy, shadow, slam · **What happens:** leapt, close, catch, not have, get out, go · **To what, where:** Nana, window, boy, shadow

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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 (boy, shadow, slam), 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:pg16:3:5
# text = As he leapt at the window Nana had closed it quickly, too late to catch him, but his shadow had not had time to get out; slam went the window and snapped it off.
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	leapt	leapt	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
7	Nana	Nana	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	closed	close	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	too	too	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	late	late	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	advcl	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	catch	catch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
17	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
19	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	shadow	shadow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
22	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
24	had	have	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	parataxis	_	_
25	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	acl	_	_
28	out	out	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	31	punct	_	_
30	slam	slam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
31	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	snapped	snap	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	conj	_	_
36	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	obj	_	_
37	off	off	ADP	RP	_	35	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leapt** | past | boy |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **close** | past · perfect · passive |  | Nana |  | the window |  | quickly *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **catch** | to-infinitive |  | boy |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **have** | past · perfect | boy's shadow |  |  |  | time |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **get out** | to-infinitive | boy's shadow *not said here* |  |  |  |  | out *property* | vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **go** | past | slam | the window |  |  |  |  | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location window=Theme |
| 7 | **snap off** | past | slam *not said here* | shadow |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme |
| 8 | **shadow** |  | boy |  |  |  |  |  | nom shadow «state 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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