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title: He let poor Tink out of the drawer, and she flew about the nursery s… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: He let poor Tink out of the drawer, and she flew about the nursery screaming with fury. Who acts: Peter, Wendy, nursery. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Peter Pan, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!, sentence 127

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He let poor Tink out of the drawer, and she flew about the nursery screaming with fury.

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**Who acts:** Peter, Wendy, nursery · **What happens:** let, tink, fly, scream · **To what, where:** drawer

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This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Peter, Wendy, nursery), 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:pg16:4:127
# text = He let poor Tink out of the drawer, and she flew about the nursery screaming with fury.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	let	let	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
4	Tink	tink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	out	out	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	drawer	drawer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
13	about	about	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	nursery	nursery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	screaming	scream	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	acl	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	fury	fury	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | past | Peter |  |  |  |  | poor *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **tink** | infinitive | Peter *not said here* |  |  | the drawer |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **fly** | past | Wendy |  |  |  |  | about the nursery | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent about nursery=Location |
| 4 | **scream** *speech: express* | gerund | the nursery *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with fury | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with fury=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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