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title: Mullins and Alf Mason and many another ruffian long known and feared… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: Mullins and Alf Mason and many another ruffian long known and feared on the Spanish Main. 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 35

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Mullins and Alf Mason and many another ruffian long known and feared on the Spanish Main.

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**What happens:** know, fear · **To what, where:** Mullins, Spanish Main

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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: 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:pg16:6:35
# text = Mullins and Alf Mason and many another ruffian long known and feared on the Spanish Main.
1	Mullins	Mullins	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
3	Alf	Alf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Mason	Mason	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
6	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	6	conj	_	_
8	ruffian	ruffian	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
9	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	10	advmod	_	_
10	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	feared	fear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	Spanish	Spanish	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	Main	Main	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | present · passive |  | Mullins and Alf Mason |  |  |  | long *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus |
| 2 | **fear** | participle |  |  |  | the Spanish Main |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=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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