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title: First to draw blood was John, who gallantly climbed into the boat an… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: First to draw blood was John, who gallantly climbed into the boat and held Starkey. Who acts: blood, John. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Peter Pan, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, sentence 211

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First to draw blood was John, who gallantly climbed into the boat and held Starkey.

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**Who acts:** blood, John · **What happens:** draw, be, climb, hold · **To what, where:** John, boat, Starkey

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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 (blood, John), 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:pg16:9:211
# text = First to draw blood was John, who gallantly climbed into the boat and held Starkey.
1	First	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	3	advmod	_	_
2	to	to	PART	TO	_	3	mark	_	_
3	draw	draw	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	John	John	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
9	gallantly	gallantly	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	climbed	climb	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
11	into	into	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	boat	boat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	held	hold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
16	Starkey	Starkey	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **draw** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | first *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | past | blood | John |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **climb** | past | John |  |  | the boat |  | gallantly *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into boat=Destination |
| 4 | **hold** | past | John *not said here* | Starkey |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent starkey=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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