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title: A shorter adventure, and quite as exciting, was Tinker Bell’s attemp… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: A shorter adventure, and quite as exciting, was Tinker Bell’s attempt, with the help of some street fairies, to have the sleeping Wendy conveyed on a great floating leaf to the mainland. Who acts: shorter adventure. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter VII. THE HOME UNDER THE GROUND, w
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# Peter Pan, Chapter VII. THE HOME UNDER THE GROUND, sentence 82

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A shorter adventure, and quite as exciting, was Tinker Bell’s attempt, with the help of some street fairies, to have the sleeping Wendy conveyed on a great floating leaf to the mainland.

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**Who acts:** shorter adventure · **What happens:** be, have, convey, float, help · **To what, where:** attempt, sleeping, great floating leaf, street fairies

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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 (shorter adventure), 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:pg16:8:82
# text = A shorter adventure, and quite as exciting, was Tinker Bell’s attempt, with the help of some street fairies, to have the sleeping Wendy conveyed on a great floating leaf to the mainland.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	shorter	short	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	amod	_	_
3	adventure	adventure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
7	as	as	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	exciting	exciting	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
11	Tinker	Tinker	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod:poss	_	_
12	Bell	Bell	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	’s	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
14	attempt	attempt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	22	det	_	_
21	street	street	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	fairies	fairy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	parataxis	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	sleeping	sleeping	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	Wendy	Wendy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	appos	_	_
29	conveyed	convey	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	acl	_	_
30	on	on	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
32	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
33	floating	float	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	34	amod	_	_
34	leaf	leaf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
35	to	to	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	mainland	mainland	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | a shorter adventure | Tinker's attempt |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | to-infinitive |  | the sleeping |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sleeping=Patient |
| 3 | **convey** | participle |  | the sleeping *not said here* |  | a great floating leaf to the mainland |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **float** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **help** |  |  | some street fairies |  |  |  |  | nom help «act transitive»: of=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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