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title: The tongues of the pursuers were hanging out; the baying of them was… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: The tongues of the pursuers were hanging out; the baying of them was horrible. Who acts: tongues. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Peter Pan, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE, sentence 176

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The tongues of the pursuers were hanging out; the baying of them was horrible.

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**Who acts:** tongues · **What happens:** hang out, bay, be

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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 (tongues), 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:pg16:6:176
# text = The tongues of the pursuers were hanging out; the baying of them was horrible.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	tongues	tongue	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	pursuers	pursuer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	hanging	hang	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
8	out	out	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	baying	bay	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	conj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	horrible	horrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hang out** | past · progressive | the tongues of the pursuers |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **bay** | gerund | the tongues of the pursuers *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of tongues *= tongue* | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | horrible *property* | tree rules |

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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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