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title: Their faces assumed the awful craftiness of children listening for s… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: Their faces assumed the awful craftiness of children listening for sounds from the grown-up world. Who acts: faces, children. 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 237

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Their faces assumed the awful craftiness of children listening for sounds from the grown-up world.

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**Who acts:** faces, children · **What happens:** assume, listen, grow up · **To what, where:** awful craftiness

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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 (faces, children), 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:pg16:4:237
# text = Their faces assumed the awful craftiness of children listening for sounds from the grown-up world.
1	Their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	faces	face	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	assumed	assume	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	awful	awful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	craftiness	craftiness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
9	listening	listen	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	acl	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	sounds	sound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
14	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	up	up	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
17	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **assume** | past | blades's faces | the awful craftiness of children |  |  |  |  | vn adopt-93.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent craftiness=Theme |
| 2 | **listen** | gerund | children *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for sounds from the grown world | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for sound=Theme |
| 3 | **grow up** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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