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title: Indeed a million golden arrows were pointing it out to the children,… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: Indeed a million golden arrows were pointing it out to the children, all directed by their friend the sun, who wanted them to be sure of their way before leaving them for the night. Who acts: million golden arrows, sun, arrows. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter IV. THE FLIGHT, with 
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# Peter Pan, Chapter IV. THE FLIGHT, sentence 61

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Indeed a million golden arrows were pointing it out to the children, all directed by their friend the sun, who wanted them to be sure of their way before leaving them for the night.

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**Who acts:** million golden arrows, sun, arrows · **What happens:** point out, direct, want, be, leave · **To what, where:** island, children, arrows

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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 (million golden arrows, sun, arrows), 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:pg16:5:61
# text = Indeed a million golden arrows were pointing it out to the children, all directed by their friend the sun, who wanted them to be sure of their way before leaving them for the night.
1	Indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	million	million	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
4	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	arrows	arrow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
6	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	pointing	point	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	out	out	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	all	all	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	directed	direct	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	conj	_	_
16	by	by	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl:agent	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
23	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
24	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
26	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	cop	_	_
27	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	xcomp	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
31	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
32	leaving	leave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	27	advcl	_	_
33	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obj	_	_
34	for	for	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **point out** | past · progressive | million golden arrows | island | the children |  |  | indeed *property* | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to child=Recipient |
| 2 | **direct** | participle | million golden arrows *not said here* |  |  |  |  | all *property* | vn performance-26.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **want** | past | the sun | arrows *= arrow* |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot they=Theme |
| 4 | **is** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | arrows *= arrow* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of arrows's way; sure *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **leave** | gerund | arrows *= arrow* *not said here* | arrows *= arrow* |  |  | night |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |

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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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