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title: As if in answer to his request, the air was rent by the most tremend… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: As if in answer to his request, the air was rent by the most tremendous crash he had ever heard. Who acts: tremendous crash, sound. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter IV. THE FLIGHT, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Peter Pan, Chapter IV. THE FLIGHT, sentence 187

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As if in answer to his request, the air was rent by the most tremendous crash he had ever heard.

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**Who acts:** tremendous crash, sound · **What happens:** rend, hear, request · **To what, where:** air, answer, tremendous crash

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This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter IV. THE FLIGHT. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tremendous crash, sound), 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:pg16:5:187
# text = As if in answer to his request, the air was rent by the most tremendous crash he had ever heard.
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
2	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	request	request	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	rent	rend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	16	advmod	_	_
16	tremendous	tremendous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	crash	crash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
19	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	21	advmod	_	_
21	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	17	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rend** | past · passive | the tremendous crash | the air |  | answer to sound's request |  |  | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient |
| 2 | **hear** | past · perfect | sound | the tremendous crash *not said here* |  |  | ever |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer crash=Stimulus |
| 3 | **request** |  | sound |  |  |  |  |  | nom request «communication 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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