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title: At first his companions trusted him implicitly, and so great were th… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: At first his companions trusted him implicitly, and so great were the delights of flying that they wasted time circling round church spires or any other tall objects on the way that took their fancy. Who acts: companions, great delights, time, way. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter 
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# Peter Pan, Chapter IV. THE FLIGHT, sentence 4

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At first his companions trusted him implicitly, and so great were the delights of flying that they wasted time circling round church spires or any other tall objects on the way that took their fancy.

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**Who acts:** companions, great delights, time, way · **What happens:** trust, be, fly, waste, circle, take · **To what, where:** Peter, great delights, way, fancy

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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 (companions, great delights, time, way), 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:pg16:5:4
# text = At first his companions trusted him implicitly, and so great were the delights of flying that they wasted time circling round church spires or any other tall objects on the way that took their fancy.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	5	obl	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	companions	companion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	trusted	trust	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	implicitly	implicitly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	so	so	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
12	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	delights	delight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
15	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
16	flying	fly	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	acl	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
18	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	wasted	waste	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	ccomp	_	_
20	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
21	circling	circle	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	acl	_	_
22	round	round	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	spires	spire	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
25	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
26	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	29	det	_	_
27	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
28	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	objects	object	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	conj	_	_
30	on	on	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
33	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	34	nsubj	_	_
34	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	acl:relcl	_	_
35	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	fancy	fancy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **trust** | past | Peter's companions | Peter |  |  |  | implicitly *property* | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | past |  | the great delights |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **fly** | gerund | the great delights *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **waste** | past | companions *= companion* |  |  |  | time |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **circle** | gerund | time *not said here* |  |  | the way |  | round church spires or any other tall objects | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **take** | past | the way | companions's fancy |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fancy=Theme |
| 7 | **fancy** |  | companions *= companion* |  |  |  |  |  | nom fancy «cognition 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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