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title: “I nipped a bit out of that eagle’s mouth pretty neatly, Wendy.” — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: “I nipped a bit out of that eagle’s mouth pretty neatly, Wendy.” Who acts: John. 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 36

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“I nipped a bit out of that eagle’s mouth pretty neatly, Wendy.”

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**Who acts:** John · **What happens:** nip · **To what, where:** bit, mouth

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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 (John), 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:pg16:5:36
# text = “I nipped a bit out of that eagle’s mouth pretty neatly, Wendy.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	nipped	nip	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
6	out	out	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
9	eagle	eagle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	’s	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
12	pretty	pretty	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	neatly	neatly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	Wendy	Wendy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **nip** *in a quote* | past | John | a bit |  | that eagle's mouth |  | Wendy *obl*; neatly *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out mouth=Trajectory |

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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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