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title: He lay at his ease in a rough chariot drawn and propelled by his men… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: He lay at his ease in a rough chariot drawn and propelled by his men, and instead of a right hand he had the iron hook with which ever and anon he encouraged them to increase their pace. Who acts: Cook, anon, Mullins. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE, with i
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# Peter Pan, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE, sentence 38

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He lay at his ease in a rough chariot drawn and propelled by his men, and instead of a right hand he had the iron hook with which ever and anon he encouraged them to increase their pace.

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**Who acts:** Cook, anon, Mullins · **What happens:** lie, draw, propel, have, encourage, increase · **To what, where:** ease, rough chariot, iron hook, Mullins, pace

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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 (Cook, anon, Mullins), 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:pg16:6:38
# text = He lay at his ease in a rough chariot drawn and propelled by his men, and instead of a right hand he had the iron hook with which ever and anon he encouraged them to increase their pace.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	ease	ease	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	rough	rough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	chariot	chariot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
10	drawn	draw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	propelled	propel	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	_
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
18	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADP	22	case	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	fixed	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	iron	iron	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	hook	hook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
28	with	with	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	34	obl	_	_
30	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	32	advmod	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	anon	anon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
33	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
34	encouraged	encourage	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	acl:relcl	_	_
35	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	obj	_	_
36	to	to	PART	TO	_	37	mark	_	_
37	increase	increase	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	xcomp	_	_
38	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	pace	pace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** | past | Cook |  |  | Cook's ease |  | in a rough chariot | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at ease=Location |
| 2 | **draw** | participle |  | a rough chariot *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **propel** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | by Cook's men | tree rules |
| 4 | **have** | past | Cook | the iron hook |  |  |  | instead a right hand | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hook=Patient |
| 5 | **encourage** | past | anon | Mullins |  |  |  | with the iron hook | vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP how S\_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 6 | **increase** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Mullins *not said here* | Mullins's pace |  |  |  |  | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer pace=Patient |

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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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