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title: Perhaps a better one would be the night attack by the redskins on th… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: Perhaps a better one would be the night attack by the redskins on the house under the ground, when several of them stuck in the hollow trees and had to be pulled out like corks. Who acts: better one. 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 77

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Perhaps a better one would be the night attack by the redskins on the house under the ground, when several of them stuck in the hollow trees and had to be pulled out like corks.

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**Who acts:** better one · **What happens:** be, have, pull out · **To what, where:** night attack

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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 (better 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:pg16:8:77
# text = Perhaps a better one would be the night attack by the redskins on the house under the ground, when several of them stuck in the hollow trees and had to be pulled out like corks.
1	Perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	amod	_	_
4	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
5	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	cop	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	attack	attack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	redskins	redskin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	under	under	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	24	advmod	_	_
21	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	nsubj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nmod	_	_
24	stuck	stuck	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	parataxis	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	hollow	hollow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
32	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	aux:pass	_	_
33	pulled	pull	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	xcomp	_	_
34	out	out	ADP	RP	_	33	compound:prt	_	_
35	like	like	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	corks	cork	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | would | a better one | the night attack |  |  |  | by the redskins on the house under the ground | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | past | a better one *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **pull out** | to-infinitive · passive | a better one *not said here* |  |  |  |  | like corks | vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V» |

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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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