--- title: Strange to say, they all recognized it at once, and until fear fell… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics description: Strange to say, they all recognized it at once, and until fear fell upon them they hailed it, not as something long dreamt of and seen at last, but as a familiar friend to whom they were returning home for the holidays. Who acts: arrows, fear. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter IV. T --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/5/63/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Peter Pan](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/) / [Chapter IV. THE FLIGHT](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/5/) / 63 # Peter Pan, Chapter IV. THE FLIGHT, sentence 63 Strange to say, they all recognized it at once, and until fear fell upon them they hailed it, not as something long dreamt of and seen at last, but as a familiar friend to whom they were returning home for the holidays. **Who acts:** arrows, fear · **What happens:** say, recognize, fall, hail, see, return · **To what, where:** sight, long dreamt, last · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (arrows, fear), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg16:5:63 # text = Strange to say, they all recognized it at once, and until fear fell upon them they hailed it, not as something long dreamt of and seen at last, but as a familiar friend to whom they were returning home for the holidays. 1 Strange strange ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 advcl _ _ 2 to to PART TO _ 3 mark _ _ 3 say say VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 5 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 6 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 7 advmod _ _ 7 recognized recognize VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 ccomp _ _ 8 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 obj _ _ 9 at at ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 13 until until SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 14 fear fear NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 15 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 advcl _ _ 16 upon upon ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obl _ _ 18 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 hailed hail VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 22 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 26 advmod _ _ 23 as as ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 24 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 26 nsubj _ _ 25 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 dreamt dreamt NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 27 of of SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 seen see VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 26 acl _ _ 30 at at ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 33 but but CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 34 as as ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 36 familiar familiar ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 38 to to ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 whom whom PRON WP PronType=Rel 37 nmod _ _ 40 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 42 nsubj _ _ 41 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 42 aux _ _ 42 returning return VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 39 acl:relcl _ _ 43 home home ADV RB _ 42 advmod _ _ 44 for for ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 45 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 46 holidays holiday NOUN NNS Number=Plur 42 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **recognize** | past | arrows *= arrow* | sight | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | | 3 | **fall** | past | fear | | | | | upon arrows *= arrow* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon they=Location | | 4 | **hail** | past | arrows *= arrow* | sight | | | | as long dreamt | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent it=Theme as dreamt=Attribute | | 5 | **see** | participle | | long dreamt *not said here* | | last | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 6 | **return** | past · progressive | arrows *= arrow* | | | | | for the holidays; home *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 62](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/5/62/) - next →: [sentence 64](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/5/64/) - ↑ back to [Chapter IV. THE FLIGHT](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/5/)