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title: Michael was up by this time also, looking as sharp as a knife with s… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: Michael was up by this time also, looking as sharp as a knife with six blades and a saw, but Peter suddenly signed silence. Who acts: Michael, time, Peter. 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 236

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Michael was up by this time also, looking as sharp as a knife with six blades and a saw, but Peter suddenly signed silence.

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**Who acts:** Michael, time, Peter · **What happens:** be, look, sign · **To what, where:** silence

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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 (Michael, time, Peter), 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:pg16:4:236
# text = Michael was up by this time also, looking as sharp as a knife with six blades and a saw, but Peter suddenly signed silence.
1	Michael	Michael	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	up	up	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
6	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	also	also	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	looking	look	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
10	as	as	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	sharp	sharp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	_
12	as	as	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	knife	knife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	blades	blade	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	saw	saw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	Peter	Peter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
24	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	signed	sign	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
26	silence	silence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Michael |  |  |  | by this time |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **look** | gerund | this time *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with six blades and a saw; sharp *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **sign** | past | Peter | silence |  |  |  | suddenly *property* | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent silence=Destination |

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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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