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title: Then all went on their knees, and holding out their arms cried, “O W… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: Then all went on their knees, and holding out their arms cried, “O Wendy lady, be our mother.” Who acts: holding. 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 202

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Then all went on their knees, and holding out their arms cried, “O Wendy lady, be our mother.”

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**Who acts:** holding · **What happens:** go, hold out, cry, be · **To what, where:** knees, arms, mother · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (holding), 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:pg16:7:202
# text = Then all went on their knees, and holding out their arms cried, “O Wendy lady, be our mother.”
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	advmod	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	knees	knee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
9	holding	hold	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	csubj	_	_
10	out	out	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
13	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	O	of	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	18	case	_	_
17	Wendy	Wendy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	cop	_	_
21	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	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 | **go** | past |  |  |  | children's knees | then |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on knee=Location |
| 2 | **hold out** | gerund |  | children's arms |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Theme |
| 3 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | holding |  |  |  |  | of Wendy lady and our mother | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | infinitive | holding *not said here* | our mother |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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