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title: At the Gulch, when victory was still in the balance, sometimes leani… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: At the Gulch, when victory was still in the balance, sometimes leaning this way and sometimes that, he called out, “I’m redskin to-day; what are you, Tootles?” Who acts: victory, balance, Gulch, you. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter VII. THE HOME UNDER THE GROUND, with its dependen
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# Peter Pan, Chapter VII. THE HOME UNDER THE GROUND, sentence 74

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At the Gulch, when victory was still in the balance, sometimes leaning this way and sometimes that, he called out, “I’m redskin to-day; what are you, Tootles?”

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**Who acts:** victory, balance, Gulch, you · **What happens:** be, lean, call out · **To what, where:** balance, way, redskin, Gulch · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (victory, balance, Gulch, 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:pg16:8:74
# text = At the Gulch, when victory was still in the balance, sometimes leaning this way and sometimes that, he called out, “I’m redskin to-day; what are you, Tootles?”
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Gulch	Gulch	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	11	mark	_	_
6	victory	victory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
8	still	still	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	balance	balance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	14	advmod	_	_
14	leaning	lean	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	acl	_	_
15	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	det	_	_
16	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	19	advmod	_	_
19	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	_
23	out	out	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	’m	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
28	redskin	redskin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
29	to	to	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
33	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	conj	_	_
34	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
35	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
37	Tootles	tootle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | victory |  |  | the balance | still |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **lean** | gerund | the balance *not said here* | this way |  |  |  | sometimes *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme |
| 3 | **call out** *speech: ask* | past | Gulch |  |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **be** *in a quote* | present | Gulch | redskin |  |  | day |  | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot redskin=Theme |
| 5 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | you | the Gulch |  |  |  |  | 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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