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title: The astounded brothers were dragged away to hack and hew and carry. — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: The astounded brothers were dragged away to hack and hew and carry. 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 126

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The astounded brothers were dragged away to hack and hew and carry.

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**What happens:** astound, drag away, hack, hew, carry · **To what, where:** astounded brothers

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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: 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:pg16:7:126
# text = The astounded brothers were dragged away to hack and hew and carry.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	astounded	astound	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	amod	_	_
3	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	dragged	drag	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	away	away	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	hack	hack	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	hew	hew	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **astound** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **drag away** | past · passive |  | the astounded brothers |  |  |  | away *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **hack** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **hew** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **carry** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «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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