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title: There was a strict rule against turning round until one gave the sig… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: There was a strict rule against turning round until one gave the signal, when all turned at once. Who acts: strict rule, one. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter VII. THE HOME UNDER THE GROUND, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Peter Pan, Chapter VII. THE HOME UNDER THE GROUND, sentence 16

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There was a strict rule against turning round until one gave the signal, when all turned at once.

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**Who acts:** strict rule, one · **What happens:** be, turn round, give, turn · **To what, where:** signal, all

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This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter VII. THE HOME UNDER THE GROUND. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (strict rule, one), 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:pg16:8:16
# text = There was a strict rule against turning round until one gave the signal, when all turned at once.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	strict	strict	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	rule	rule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
6	against	against	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
7	turning	turn	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
8	round	round	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nsubj	_	_
11	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	signal	signal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	17	advmod	_	_
16	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	turned	turn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl:relcl	_	_
18	at	at	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | a strict rule |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **turn round** | gerund | a strict rule *not said here* |  |  |  |  | round *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **give** | past | one | the signal |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent signal=Theme |
| 4 | **turn** | participle · passive |  | all |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme |

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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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