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title: They were going round and round the island, but they did not meet be… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: They were going round and round the island, but they did not meet because all were going at the same rate. Who acts: beasts. 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 8

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They were going round and round the island, but they did not meet because all were going at the same rate.

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**Who acts:** beasts · **What happens:** go round, round, not meet, go · **To what, where:** island, same rate

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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 (beasts), 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:pg16:6:8
# text = They were going round and round the island, but they did not meet because all were going at the same rate.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	round	round	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	round	round	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
12	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	meet	meet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
15	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
16	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	18	advmod	_	_
17	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
19	at	at	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	rate	rate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go round** | past · progressive | beasts *= beast* |  |  |  |  | round *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **round** | infinitive | beasts *= beast* *not said here* | the island |  |  |  |  | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent island=Patient |
| 3 | **not** **meet** | past · do-support | beasts *= beast* |  |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **go** | past · progressive | beasts *= beast* *not said here* |  |  | the same rate |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at rate=Location |

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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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