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title: “Tinker Bell,” he called softly, after making sure that the children… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: “Tinker Bell,” he called softly, after making sure that the children were asleep, “Tink, where are you?” Who acts: Peter, children, you. 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 9

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“Tinker Bell,” he called softly, after making sure that the children were asleep, “Tink, where are you?”

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**Who acts:** Peter, children, you · **What happens:** call, make, be · **To what, where:** Tinker Bell · **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 (Peter, children, you), 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:pg16:4:9
# text = “Tinker Bell,” he called softly, after making sure that the children were asleep, “Tink, where are you?”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Tinker	tinker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Bell	bell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	softly	softly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
11	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
12	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	xcomp	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
16	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	Tink	Tink	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	20	nmod	_	_
23	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
24	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** *speech: ask* | past | Peter | Tinker Bell |  |  |  | softly *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **make** | gerund | Peter *not said here* |  |  |  |  | sure *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 3 | **is** | past | the children |  |  |  |  | asleep *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present | you |  |  |  |  | where *property* | tree rules |

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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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