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title: On the trail of the pirates, stealing noiselessly down the war-path,… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: On the trail of the pirates, stealing noiselessly down the war-path, which is not visible to inexperienced eyes, come the redskins, every one of them with his eyes peeled. Who acts: war path, eyes. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE, with its dependency tree a
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# Peter Pan, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE, sentence 53

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On the trail of the pirates, stealing noiselessly down the war-path, which is not visible to inexperienced eyes, come the redskins, every one of them with his eyes peeled.

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**Who acts:** war path, eyes · **What happens:** steal, not be, come, peel · **To what, where:** trail, redskins

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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 (war path, eyes), 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:pg16:6:53
# text = On the trail of the pirates, stealing noiselessly down the war-path, which is not visible to inexperienced eyes, come the redskins, every one of them with his eyes peeled.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	trail	trail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	pirates	pirate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	stealing	steal	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
9	noiselessly	noiselessly	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	down	down	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	path	path	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
19	visible	visible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	inexperienced	inexperienced	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	redskins	redskin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	29	det	_	_
29	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	parataxis	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nmod	_	_
32	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
33	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	nsubj	_	_
35	peeled	peel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **steal** | gerund |  |  |  | the trail of the pirates |  | down the war path; noiselessly *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on trail=Location |
| 2 | **not** **is** | present | the war path |  |  |  |  | to inexperienced eyes; visible *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **come** | infinitive |  | the redskins |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location redskin=Theme |
| 4 | **peel** | past | man's eyes |  |  |  |  |  | vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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