---
title: They examined the mushroom, which was of a size and solidity unknown… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: They examined the mushroom, which was of a size and solidity unknown on the mainland; they tried to pull it up, and it came away at once in their hands, for it had no root. Who acts: bobs, mushroom. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE, with its dependency tree 
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/6/139/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[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 V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/6/) / 139

# Peter Pan, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE, sentence 139

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
They examined the mushroom, which was of a size and solidity unknown on the mainland; they tried to pull it up, and it came away at once in their hands, for it had no root.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** bobs, mushroom · **What happens:** examine, be, try, pull up, come away, have · **To what, where:** mushroom, hands, root

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bobs, mushroom), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:pg16:6:139
# text = They examined the mushroom, which was of a size and solidity unknown on the mainland; they tried to pull it up, and it came away at once in their hands, for it had no root.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	examined	examine	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	mushroom	mushroom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	size	size	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	solidity	solidity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
13	unknown	unknown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	mainland	mainland	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	tried	try	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	pull	pull	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	up	up	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
28	away	away	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
29	at	at	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	27	obl	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
35	for	for	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
37	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	conj	_	_
38	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	39	det	_	_
39	root	root	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **examine** | past | bobs *= bob* | the mushroom |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mushroom=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | the mushroom |  |  |  |  | of a size and solidity | tree rules |
| 3 | **try** | past | bobs *= bob* |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **pull up** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | bobs *= bob* *not said here* | mushroom |  |  |  |  | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 5 | **come away** | past | mushroom |  |  | bobs's hands |  | away *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at once=Location |
| 6 | **have** | past | mushroom | no root |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent root=Patient |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 138](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/6/138/)
- next →: [sentence 140](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/6/140/)
- ↑ back to [Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/6/)