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title: Or again, we might choose Peter’s defiance of the lions, when he dre… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
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# Peter Pan, Chapter VII. THE HOME UNDER THE GROUND, sentence 84

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Or again, we might choose Peter’s defiance of the lions, when he drew a circle round him on the ground with an arrow and dared them to cross it; and though he waited for hours, with the other boys and Wendy looking on breathlessly from trees, not one of them dared to accept his challenge.

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**Who acts:** we, upshot, other boys · **What happens:** choose, draw, dare, cross, wait, look · **To what, where:** defiance, circle, ground, lions, challenge

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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 (we, upshot, other boys), 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:pg16:8:84
# text = Or again, we might choose Peter’s defiance of the lions, when he drew a circle round him on the ground with an arrow and dared them to cross it; and though he waited for hours, with the other boys and Wendy looking on breathlessly from trees, not one of them dared to accept his challenge.
1	Or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	again	again	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	choose	choose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	Peter	Peter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	’s	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	defiance	defiance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	lions	lion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	16	advmod	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	circle	circle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	round	round	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	_
21	on	on	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	arrow	arrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	dared	dare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
29	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	cross	cross	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	xcomp	_	_
32	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
35	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
36	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
37	waited	wait	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
38	for	for	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
41	with	with	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
43	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
44	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	57	nsubj	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
46	Wendy	Wendy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	44	conj	_	_
47	looking	look	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	44	acl	_	_
48	on	on	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
49	breathlessly	breathlessly	ADV	RB	_	51	advmod	_	_
50	from	from	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
51	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	47	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
53	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	54	advmod	_	_
54	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	51	conj	_	_
55	of	of	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
56	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	54	nmod	_	_
57	dared	dare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	conj	_	_
58	to	to	PART	TO	_	59	mark	_	_
59	accept	accept	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	57	xcomp	_	_
60	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	61	nmod:poss	_	_
61	challenge	challenge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	59	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **choose** | might | we | Peter's defiance of the lions |  |  | again |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent defiance=Theme |
| 2 | **draw** | past | upshot | a circle |  | the ground |  | round Tinker; with a arrow | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent circle=Theme on ground=Destination |
| 3 | **dare** | past | upshot *not said here* | lions *= lion* |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **cross** | to-infinitive | upshot *not said here* | circle |  |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 5 | **wait** | past | upshot |  |  |  | hour |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **look** | gerund | the other boys and Wendy *not said here* |  |  |  |  | on trees | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on tree=Theme |
| 7 | **dare** | past | the other boys and Wendy |  |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 8 | **accept** | to-infinitive | the other boys and Wendy *not said here* | upshot's challenge |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent challenge=Theme |
| 9 | **challenge** |  | upshot |  |  |  |  |  | nom challenge «state transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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