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title: He often went out alone, and when he came back you were never absolu… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: He often went out alone, and when he came back you were never absolutely certain whether he had had an adventure or not. Who acts: sort, you. 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 65

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He often went out alone, and when he came back you were never absolutely certain whether he had had an adventure or not.

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**Who acts:** sort, you · **What happens:** go out, come back, be, have · **To what, where:** adventure

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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 (sort, you), 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:pg16:8:65
# text = He often went out alone, and when he came back you were never absolutely certain whether he had had an adventure or not.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	often	often	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	out	out	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
8	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
11	back	back	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
13	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
14	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	absolutely	absolutely	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	certain	certain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
17	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	had	have	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
21	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	adventure	adventure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go out** | past | sort |  |  |  |  | alone, often, out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **come back** | past | sort |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past | you |  |  |  |  | absolutely, certain *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **have** | past · perfect | sort | a adventure |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent adventure=Patient |

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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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