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title: Then unexplored patches arose in it and spread, black shadows moved… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: Then unexplored patches arose in it and spread, black shadows moved about in them, the roar of the beasts of prey was quite different now, and above all, you lost the certainty that you would win. Who acts: unexplored patches, black shadows, roar, you. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chap
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# Peter Pan, Chapter IV. THE FLIGHT, sentence 84

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Then unexplored patches arose in it and spread, black shadows moved about in them, the roar of the beasts of prey was quite different now, and above all, you lost the certainty that you would win.

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**Who acts:** unexplored patches, black shadows, roar, you, certainty, beasts · **What happens:** arise, spread, move, be, lose, win · **To what, where:** bedtime, certainty, all

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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 (unexplored patches, black shadows, roar, you), 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:pg16:5:84
# text = Then unexplored patches arose in it and spread, black shadows moved about in them, the roar of the beasts of prey was quite different now, and above all, you lost the certainty that you would win.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	unexplored	unexplored	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	patches	patch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	arose	arise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	spread	spread	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	shadows	shadow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	moved	move	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
13	about	about	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	roar	roar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	beasts	beast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	prey	prey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
25	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	ccomp	_	_
27	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	26	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
30	above	above	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
33	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
34	lost	lose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	certainty	certainty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
37	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	40	nsubj	_	_
38	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
39	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	40	aux	_	_
40	win	win	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **arise** | past | unexplored patches |  |  | bedtime | then |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in it=Location |
| 2 | **spread** | past | unexplored patches *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **move** | past | black shadows |  |  |  |  | about patches *= patch* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme about they=Trajectory |
| 4 | **is** | past | the roar of the beasts of prey |  |  |  | now | different *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **lose** | past | you | the certainty |  | all |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent certainty=Eventuality |
| 6 | **win** | would | the certainty |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **roar** |  | the beasts of prey |  |  |  |  |  | nom roar «event intransitive»: of=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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