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title: The boys vanish in the gloom, and after a pause, but not a long paus… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: The boys vanish in the gloom, and after a pause, but not a long pause, for things go briskly on the island, come the pirates on their track. Who acts: boys, things. 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 28

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The boys vanish in the gloom, and after a pause, but not a long pause, for things go briskly on the island, come the pirates on their track.

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**Who acts:** boys, things · **What happens:** vanish, go, come · **To what, where:** long pause, gloom, island, pirates, track

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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, things), 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:pg16:6:28
# text = The boys vanish in the gloom, and after a pause, but not a long pause, for things go briskly on the island, come the pirates on their track.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	vanish	vanish	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	gloom	gloom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	after	after	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	pause	pause	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	pause	pause	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
20	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
21	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
22	briskly	briskly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	xcomp	_	_
23	on	on	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	conj	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	pirates	pirate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	_
30	on	on	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	track	track	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **vanish** | present | the boys | a long pause |  | the gloom and a pause |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **go** | present | things |  |  | the island |  | briskly *property* | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on island=Location |
| 3 | **come** | infinitive | things *not said here* | the pirates |  | things's track |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location pirate=Theme |

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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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