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title: They ran into the middle of the street to look up at the nursery win… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: They ran into the middle of the street to look up at the nursery window; and, yes, it was still shut, but the room was ablaze with light, and most heart-gripping sight of all, they could see in shadow on the curtain three little figures in night attire circling round and round, not on the floor but 
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# Peter Pan, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!, sentence 309

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They ran into the middle of the street to look up at the nursery window; and, yes, it was still shut, but the room was ablaze with light, and most heart-gripping sight of all, they could see in shadow on the curtain three little figures in night attire circling round and round, not on the floor but in the air.

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**Who acts:** pirates, hat, room, most, night attire · **What happens:** run, look up, be, grip, see, circle · **To what, where:** middle, sight, three little figures, shadow, floor

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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 (pirates, hat, room, most), 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:pg16:4:309
# text = They ran into the middle of the street to look up at the nursery window; and, yes, it was still shut, but the room was ablaze with light, and most heart-gripping sight of all, they could see in shadow on the curtain three little figures in night attire circling round and round, not on the floor but in the air.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	into	into	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	middle	middle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	street	street	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
11	up	up	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	nursery	nursery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
19	yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	24	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
23	still	still	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	shut	shut	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
26	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
29	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
30	ablaze	ablaze	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	conj	_	_
31	with	with	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
35	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	38	nsubj	_	_
36	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	gripping	grip	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
39	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obj	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	39	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
43	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	nsubj	_	_
44	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	45	aux	_	_
45	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
46	in	in	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
47	shadow	shadow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obl	_	_
48	on	on	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	curtain	curtain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obl	_	_
51	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	53	nummod	_	_
52	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	53	amod	_	_
53	figures	figure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	45	obj	_	_
54	in	in	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
55	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	compound	_	_
56	attire	attire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	nmod	_	_
57	circling	circle	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	56	acl	_	_
58	round	round	ADV	RB	_	57	advmod	_	_
59	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	60	cc	_	_
60	round	round	ADV	RB	_	58	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	65	punct	_	_
62	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	65	advmod	_	_
63	on	on	ADP	IN	_	65	case	_	_
64	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	65	det	_	_
65	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	obl	_	_
66	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	69	cc	_	_
67	in	in	ADP	IN	_	69	case	_	_
68	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	69	det	_	_
69	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	65	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
70	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | past | pirates *= pirate* |  |  |  |  | into the middle of the street *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into middle=Result |
| 2 | **look up** | to-infinitive | pirates *= pirate* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at the nursery window | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at window=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past | hat |  |  |  | still | shut *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | past | the room |  |  |  |  | with light; ablaze *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **grip** | gerund | most | sight of all |  |  |  |  | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Experiencer |
| 6 | **see** | could | pirates *= pirate* | three little figures |  | shadow |  | on the curtain; in night attire | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer figure=Stimulus |
| 7 | **circle** | gerund | night attire *not said here* |  |  | the floor but the air |  | round *property* | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: 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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