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title: By and by she tucked them up in the great bed in the home under the… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: By and by she tucked them up in the great bed in the home under the trees, but she herself slept that night in the little house, and Peter kept watch outside with drawn sword, for the pirates could be heard carousing far away and the wolves were on the prowl. Who acts: room, Peter, pirates, wolves. 
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# Peter Pan, Chapter VI. THE LITTLE HOUSE, sentence 217

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By and by she tucked them up in the great bed in the home under the trees, but she herself slept that night in the little house, and Peter kept watch outside with drawn sword, for the pirates could be heard carousing far away and the wolves were on the prowl.

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**Who acts:** room, Peter, pirates, wolves · **What happens:** tuck up, sleep, keep, watch, draw, hear · **To what, where:** feet, great bed, little house, pirates, prowl

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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 (room, Peter, pirates, wolves), 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:pg16:7:217
# text = By and by she tucked them up in the great bed in the home under the trees, but she herself slept that night in the little house, and Peter kept watch outside with drawn sword, for the pirates could be heard carousing far away and the wolves were on the prowl.
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
3	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	tucked	tuck	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	up	up	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
15	under	under	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	20	conj	_	_
22	slept	sleep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
23	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	24	det	_	_
24	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl:unmarked	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
31	Peter	Peter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
32	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
33	watch	watch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	xcomp	_	_
34	outside	outside	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
35	with	with	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	drawn	draw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	37	amod	_	_
37	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
39	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	44	mark	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	pirates	pirate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	nsubj:pass	_	_
42	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	44	aux	_	_
43	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	44	aux:pass	_	_
44	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	33	parataxis	_	_
45	carousing	carouse	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	44	xcomp	_	_
46	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	47	advmod	_	_
47	away	away	ADV	RB	_	45	advmod	_	_
48	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	54	cc	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	wolves	wolf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	54	nsubj	_	_
51	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	54	cop	_	_
52	on	on	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
53	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
54	prowl	prowl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tuck up** | past | room | feet *= foot* |  | the great bed |  | in the home; under the trees | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent they=Theme in bed=Trajectory |
| 2 | **sleep** | past | room |  |  | the little house | night |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in house=Location |
| 3 | **keep** | past | Peter |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **watch** | infinitive | Peter *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with drawn sword; outside *property* | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **draw** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **hear** | could · passive |  | the pirates |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **carouse** | gerund | the pirates *not said here* |  |  |  |  | away *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **is** | past | the wolves |  |  | the prowl |  |  | 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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