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title: Once more the boys emerged into the open; but the dangers of the nig… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: Once more the boys emerged into the open; but the dangers of the night were not yet over, for presently Nibs rushed breathless into their midst, pursued by a pack of wolves. Who acts: boys, dangers, Nibs. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE, with its dependency
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# Peter Pan, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE, sentence 175

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Once more the boys emerged into the open; but the dangers of the night were not yet over, for presently Nibs rushed breathless into their midst, pursued by a pack of wolves.

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**Who acts:** boys, dangers, Nibs · **What happens:** emerge, not be, rush, pursue · **To what, where:** open, midst

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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 (boys, dangers, Nibs), 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:pg16:6:175
# text = Once more the boys emerged into the open; but the dangers of the night were not yet over, for presently Nibs rushed breathless into their midst, pursued by a pack of wolves.
1	Once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	2	advmod	_	_
2	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	5	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	emerged	emerge	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	into	into	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	dangers	danger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
18	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	over	over	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
22	presently	presently	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
23	Nibs	nib	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
24	rushed	rush	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
25	breathless	breathless	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
26	into	into	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	midst	midst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	pursued	pursue	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	acl	_	_
31	by	by	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	pack	pack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	wolves	wolf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **emerge** | past | the boys |  |  | the open |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into open=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **not** **is** | past | the dangers of the night |  |  |  | yet | over *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **rush** | past | Nibs |  |  |  |  | into Nibs's midst *result*; breathless, presently *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into midst=Result |
| 4 | **pursue** | participle |  | Nibs's midst *not said here* |  |  |  | by a pack of wolves | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent by pack=Trajectory |

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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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