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title: There was another light in the room now, a thousand times brighter t… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: There was another light in the room now, a thousand times brighter than the night-lights, and in the time we have taken to say this, it had been in all the drawers in the nursery, looking for Peter’s shadow, rummaged the wardrobe and turned every pocket inside out. Who acts: light, we, three, Peter.
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# Peter Pan, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!, sentence 3

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There was another light in the room now, a thousand times brighter than the night-lights, and in the time we have taken to say this, it had been in all the drawers in the nursery, looking for Peter’s shadow, rummaged the wardrobe and turned every pocket inside out.

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**Who acts:** light, we, three, Peter · **What happens:** be, take, say, look, rummage, turn · **To what, where:** time, this, drawers, wardrobe, pocket · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (light, we, three, 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:pg16:4:3
# text = There was another light in the room now, a thousand times brighter than the night-lights, and in the time we have taken to say this, it had been in all the drawers in the nursery, looking for Peter’s shadow, rummaged the wardrobe and turned every pocket inside out.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	4	det	_	_
4	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl:unmarked	_	_
13	brighter	bright	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	nsubj	_	_
14	than	than	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	lights	light	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
24	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	23	acl:relcl	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	xcomp	_	_
29	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
31	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
32	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
33	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	37	cop	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	37	det:predet	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	drawers	drawer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	_
38	in	in	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	nursery	nursery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
42	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	37	conj	_	_
43	for	for	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
44	Peter	Peter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	46	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	’s	's	PART	POS	_	44	case	_	_
46	shadow	shadow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
48	rummaged	rummage	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	parataxis	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	wardrobe	wardrobe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obj	_	_
51	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
52	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	48	conj	_	_
53	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	54	det	_	_
54	pocket	pocket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	obj	_	_
55	inside	inside	ADV	RB	_	56	advmod	_	_
56	out	out	ADV	RB	_	52	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | another light in the room |  |  | there | now; time |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **take** | present · perfect | we | the time *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent time=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | we *not said here* | this |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent this=Topic |
| 4 | **is** | past · perfect | three |  |  | all drawers |  | in the nursery | tree rules |
| 5 | **look** | gerund | three *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for Peter's shadow | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for shadow=Theme |
| 6 | **rummage** | past |  | the wardrobe |  |  |  |  | vn rummage-35.5-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent wardrobe=Location |
| 7 | **turn** | past |  | every pocket |  |  |  | out *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent pocket=Theme |
| 8 | **shadow** |  | Peter |  |  |  |  |  | nom shadow «state transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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