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title: The bubbles of many colours made in rainbow water they treat as ball… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: The bubbles of many colours made in rainbow water they treat as balls, hitting them gaily from one to another with their tails, and trying to keep them in the rainbow till they burst. Who acts: bubbles. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, with its dependenc
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# Peter Pan, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, sentence 11

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The bubbles of many colours made in rainbow water they treat as balls, hitting them gaily from one to another with their tails, and trying to keep them in the rainbow till they burst.

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**Who acts:** bubbles · **What happens:** make, treat, hit, try, keep, burst · **To what, where:** many colours, rainbow water, bubbles, rainbow

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This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bubbles), 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:pg16:9:11
# text = The bubbles of many colours made in rainbow water they treat as balls, hitting them gaily from one to another with their tails, and trying to keep them in the rainbow till they burst.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bubbles	bubble	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	colours	colour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	rainbow	rainbow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	treat	treat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	as	as	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	balls	ball	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	hitting	hit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
16	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	gaily	gaily	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	xcomp	_	_
18	from	from	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	obl	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	19	nmod	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	tails	tail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	trying	try	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	xcomp	_	_
30	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	rainbow	rainbow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
34	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
35	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
36	burst	burst	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | participle |  | many colours *not said here* |  | rainbow water |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 2 | **treat** | present | the bubbles of many colours |  |  |  |  | as balls | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent as ball=Attribute |
| 3 | **hit** | gerund | the bubbles of many colours *not said here* | bubbles *= bubble* |  |  |  | from one to another; with bubbles's tails; gaily *property* | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent they=Patient with tail=Instrument |
| 4 | **try** | gerund | the bubbles of many colours *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 5 | **keep** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the bubbles of many colours *not said here* | bubbles *= bubble* |  | the rainbow |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Theme in rainbow=Location |
| 6 | **burst** | present | bubbles *= bubble* |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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