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title: Instead of troubling to answer him Peter flew around the room, takin… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: Instead of troubling to answer him Peter flew around the room, taking the mantelpiece on the way. Who acts: 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 271

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Instead of troubling to answer him Peter flew around the room, taking the mantelpiece on the way.

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**Who acts:** Peter · **What happens:** trouble, answer, fly, take · **To what, where:** Peter, room, mantelpiece, way

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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), 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:pg16:4:271
# text = Instead of troubling to answer him Peter flew around the room, taking the mantelpiece on the way.
1	Instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=SCONJ	3	mark	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	troubling	trouble	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	answer	answer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	Peter	Peter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	around	around	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	taking	take	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	conj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	mantelpiece	mantelpiece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **trouble** | gerund | Peter *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **answer** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | Peter *not said here* |  | Peter |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality |
| 3 | **fly** | past | Peter |  |  | the room |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent around room=Location |
| 4 | **take** | gerund | Peter *not said here* | the mantelpiece |  | the way |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent mantelpiece=Theme on way=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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