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title: They were now over the fearsome island, flying so low that sometimes… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: They were now over the fearsome island, flying so low that sometimes a tree grazed their feet. Who acts: eyes, tree. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter IV. THE FLIGHT, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Peter Pan, Chapter IV. THE FLIGHT, sentence 90

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They were now over the fearsome island, flying so low that sometimes a tree grazed their feet.

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**Who acts:** eyes, tree · **What happens:** be, fly, graze · **To what, where:** fearsome island, feet

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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 (eyes, tree), 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:pg16:5:90
# text = They were now over the fearsome island, flying so low that sometimes a tree grazed their feet.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
3	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	_
4	over	over	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	fearsome	fearsome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	flying	fly	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	nmod	_	_
10	so	so	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
13	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	16	advmod	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	grazed	graze	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
17	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | eyes *= eye* |  |  | the fearsome island | now |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **fly** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | low *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **graze** | past | a tree | eyes's feet |  |  |  | sometimes *property* | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=Experiencer |

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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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