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title: The other boys thought this awfully interesting, and insisted on joi… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: The other boys thought this awfully interesting, and insisted on joining, and they made slates for themselves, and sat round the table, writing and thinking hard about the questions she had written on another slate and passed round. Who acts: other boys, boys, fireplace. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by
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# Peter Pan, Chapter VII. THE HOME UNDER THE GROUND, sentence 44

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The other boys thought this awfully interesting, and insisted on joining, and they made slates for themselves, and sat round the table, writing and thinking hard about the questions she had written on another slate and passed round.

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**Who acts:** other boys, boys, fireplace · **What happens:** think, insist, join, make, sit, write · **To what, where:** slates, questions, slate

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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 (other boys, boys, fireplace), 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:pg16:8:44
# text = The other boys thought this awfully interesting, and insisted on joining, and they made slates for themselves, and sat round the table, writing and thinking hard about the questions she had written on another slate and passed round.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	nsubj	_	_
6	awfully	awfully	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	interesting	interesting	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	insisted	insist	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
11	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
12	joining	join	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
17	slates	slate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
23	round	round	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	writing	write	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	advcl	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	27	conj	_	_
30	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	29	advmod	_	_
31	about	about	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	questions	question	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	_
34	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
35	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
36	written	write	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	33	acl:relcl	_	_
37	on	on	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	39	det	_	_
39	slate	slate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
41	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	36	conj	_	_
42	round	round	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past | the other boys |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **insist** *speech: other* | participle | the other boys *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **join** | gerund | the other boys *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **make** | past | boys *= boy* | slates |  |  |  | for boys *= boy* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent slate=Product for themselves=Asset |
| 5 | **sit** | past |  |  |  |  |  | round the table | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **write** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **think** *speech: other* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | about the questions; hard *property* | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about question=Topic |
| 8 | **write** | past · perfect | fireplace | the questions *not said here* |  | another slate |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent question=Theme on slate=Destination |
| 9 | **pass round** | participle | fireplace *not said here* |  |  |  |  | round *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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