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title: The roar of it echoed through the mountains, and the echoes seemed t… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: The roar of it echoed through the mountains, and the echoes seemed to cry savagely, “Where are they, where are they, where are they?” Who acts: roar, echoes, pirate. 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 189

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The roar of it echoed through the mountains, and the echoes seemed to cry savagely, “Where are they, where are they, where are they?”

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**Who acts:** roar, echoes, pirate · **What happens:** echo, seem, cry, be, roar · **To what, where:** mountains, echoes · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (roar, echoes, pirate), 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:pg16:5:189
# text = The roar of it echoed through the mountains, and the echoes seemed to cry savagely, “Where are they, where are they, where are they?”
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	roar	roar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nmod	_	_
5	echoed	echo	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	through	through	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	echoes	echo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
13	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	cry	cry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	savagely	savagely	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	Where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	21	advmod	_	_
20	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	25	advmod	_	_
24	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
25	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	25	nmod	_	_
28	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
29	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **echo** | past | the roar of pirate |  |  | the mountains |  |  | vn sound\_existence-47.4 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through mountain=Location |
| 2 | **seem** | past | the echoes |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 3 | **cry** *speech: express* | to-infinitive | the echoes *not said here* |  |  |  |  | savagely *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | present |  | mountains *= mountain* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **is a** *in a quote* | present |  | echoes *= echo* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **is** *in a quote* | present | echoes *= echo* |  |  |  |  | where *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **roar** |  | pirate |  |  |  |  |  | nom roar «event intransitive»: of=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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