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title: She meant the chest of drawers, and Peter jumped at the drawers, sca… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: She meant the chest of drawers, and Peter jumped at the drawers, scattering their contents to the floor with both hands, as kings toss ha’pence to the crowd. Who acts: Tink, Peter, kings. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!, with its dependency tree and the 
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# Peter Pan, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!, sentence 16

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She meant the chest of drawers, and Peter jumped at the drawers, scattering their contents to the floor with both hands, as kings toss ha’pence to the crowd.

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**Who acts:** Tink, Peter, kings · **What happens:** mean, jump, scatter, toss · **To what, where:** chest, drawers, contents, ha’pence, crowd

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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 (Tink, Peter, kings), 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:pg16:4:16
# text = She meant the chest of drawers, and Peter jumped at the drawers, scattering their contents to the floor with both hands, as kings toss ha’pence to the crowd.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	meant	mean	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	chest	chest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	drawers	drawer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	Peter	Peter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	jumped	jump	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	drawers	drawer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	scattering	scatter	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
16	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	contents	contents	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	15	obj	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	23	det	_	_
23	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
26	kings	king	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj	_	_
27	toss	toss	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
28	ha’pence	ha'pence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
29	to	to	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	crowd	crowd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | past | Tink | the chest of drawers |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chest=Topic |
| 2 | **jump** | past | Peter |  |  | the drawers |  | with both hands | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at drawer=Trajectory |
| 3 | **scatter** | gerund | Peter *not said here* | drawers's contents |  |  |  | to the floor | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent contents=Theme |
| 4 | **toss** | present | kings | ha’pence | the crowd |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent ha'pence=Patient to crowd=Recipient |

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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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