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title: She hung it out at the window, meaning “He is sure to come back for… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: She hung it out at the window, meaning “He is sure to come back for it; let us put it where he can get it easily without disturbing the children.” Who acts: Nana, slam, us. 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 8

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She hung it out at the window, meaning “He is sure to come back for it; let us put it where he can get it easily without disturbing the children.”

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**Who acts:** Nana, slam, us · **What happens:** hang out, mean, be, come back, let, put · **To what, where:** shadow, window, us, children · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Nana, slam, us), 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:pg16:3:8
# text = She hung it out at the window, meaning “He is sure to come back for it; let us put it where he can get it easily without disturbing the children.”
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	hung	hang	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	out	out	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	meaning	mean	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
10	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	ccomp	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	back	back	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
20	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	ccomp	_	_
21	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	27	advmod	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
26	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	parataxis	_	_
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	easily	easily	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
30	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
31	disturbing	disturb	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	27	advcl	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hang out** | past | Nana | shadow |  | the window |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **mean** | gerund | Nana *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | slam |  |  |  |  | sure *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **come back** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | slam *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for shadow | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive | Nana *not said here* | us |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **put** *in a quote* | infinitive | us *not said here* | shadow |  |  |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal |
| 7 | **get** *in a quote* | can | slam | shadow |  |  |  | easily *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
| 8 | **disturb** *in a quote* | gerund | slam *not said here* | the children |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus child=Experiencer |

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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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