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title: So with occasional tiffs, but on the whole rollicking, they drew nea… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
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# Peter Pan, Chapter IV. THE FLIGHT, sentence 56

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So with occasional tiffs, but on the whole rollicking, they drew near the Neverland; for after many moons they did reach it, and, what is more, they had been going pretty straight all the time, not perhaps so much owing to the guidance of Peter or Tink as because the island was looking for them.

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**Who acts:** amends, more, island · **What happens:** draw, reach, be, go, not owe, look · **To what, where:** Neverland, guidance, Peter

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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 (amends, more, island), 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:pg16:5:56
# text = So with occasional tiffs, but on the whole rollicking, they drew near the Neverland; for after many moons they did reach it, and, what is more, they had been going pretty straight all the time, not perhaps so much owing to the guidance of Peter or Tink as because the island was looking for them.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
2	with	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	occasional	occasional	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	tiffs	tiff	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	rollicking	rollicking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	near	near	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	Neverland	Neverland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	after	after	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	moons	moon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
22	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	reach	reach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	31	nsubj	_	_
30	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
31	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	36	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
33	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
34	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
35	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	36	aux	_	_
36	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
37	pretty	pretty	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
38	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
39	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	41	det:predet	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
43	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	47	advmod	_	_
44	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	47	advmod	_	_
45	so	so	ADV	RB	_	46	advmod	_	_
46	much	much	ADV	RB	_	47	advmod	_	_
47	owing	owe	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	36	conj	_	_
48	to	to	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	guidance	guidance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obl	_	_
51	of	of	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
52	Peter	Peter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	50	nmod	_	_
53	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	54	cc	_	_
54	Tink	Tink	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	52	conj	_	_
55	as	as	ADV	RB	_	47	advmod	_	_
56	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	60	mark	_	_
57	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	58	det	_	_
58	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	60	nsubj	_	_
59	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	60	aux	_	_
60	looking	look	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	47	advcl	_	_
61	for	for	ADP	IN	_	62	case	_	_
62	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	60	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **draw** | past | amends *= amend* |  |  | the Neverland |  | with occasional tiffs but the whole rollicking | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **reach** | past · do-support | amends *= amend* | Neverland |  |  |  | for many moons | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent it=Theme for moon=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | more *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **go** | past · perfect · progressive | more |  |  |  | time | pretty *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **not** **owe** | gerund | more *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the guidance of Peter or Tink *goal*; perhaps *property* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent to guidance=Goal |
| 6 | **look** | past · progressive | the island |  |  |  |  | for amends *= amend* | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for they=Theme |
| 7 | **guide** |  |  | Peter or Tink |  |  |  |  | nom guidance «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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