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title: Foolish Tootles was standing like a conqueror over Wendy’s body when… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: Foolish Tootles was standing like a conqueror over Wendy’s body when the other boys sprang, armed, from their trees. Who acts: Foolish Tootles, other boys. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter VI. THE LITTLE HOUSE, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Peter Pan, Chapter VI. THE LITTLE HOUSE, sentence 1

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Foolish Tootles was standing like a conqueror over Wendy’s body when the other boys sprang, armed, from their trees.

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**Who acts:** Foolish Tootles, other boys · **What happens:** stand, spring · **To what, where:** trees

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This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter VI. THE LITTLE HOUSE. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Foolish Tootles, other boys), 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:pg16:7:1
# text = Foolish Tootles was standing like a conqueror over Wendy’s body when the other boys sprang, armed, from their trees.
1	Foolish	foolish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	Tootles	tootle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	like	like	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	conqueror	conqueror	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	over	over	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	Wendy	Wendy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	’s	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
12	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	16	advmod	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
16	sprang	spring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	armed	armed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	from	from	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past · progressive | Foolish Tootles |  |  |  |  | like a conqueror over Wendy's body | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **spring** | past | the other boys |  |  | boys's trees |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from tree=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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