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title: All are keeping a sharp look-out in front, but none suspects that th… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: All are keeping a sharp look-out in front, but none suspects that the danger may be creeping up from behind. Who acts: All, none, danger. 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 69

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All are keeping a sharp look-out in front, but none suspects that the danger may be creeping up from behind.

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**Who acts:** All, none, danger · **What happens:** keep, suspect, creep up · **To what, where:** sharp look out, front

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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 (All, none, danger), 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:pg16:6:69
# text = All are keeping a sharp look-out in front, but none suspects that the danger may be creeping up from behind.
1	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	keeping	keep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
5	sharp	sharp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
6	look	look	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	out	out	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	14	nsubj	_	_
14	suspects	suspect	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	danger	danger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
18	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	aux	_	_
20	creeping	creep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
21	up	up	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	_
22	from	from	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	behind	behind	ADV	RB	_	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | present · progressive | All | a sharp look out |  | front |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent out=Theme in front=Location |
| 2 | **suspect** | present | none |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **creep up** | may · progressive | the danger |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from behind=Trajectory |

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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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