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title: Here and there a head bobbed up in the water, and there was a flash… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: Here and there a head bobbed up in the water, and there was a flash of steel followed by a cry or a whoop. Who acts: head, flash, steel. 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 215

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Here and there a head bobbed up in the water, and there was a flash of steel followed by a cry or a whoop.

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**Who acts:** head, flash, steel · **What happens:** bob up, be, follow, flash · **To what, where:** water, steel

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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 (head, flash, steel), 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:pg16:9:215
# text = Here and there a head bobbed up in the water, and there was a flash of steel followed by a cry or a whoop.
1	Here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
3	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	6	expl	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	bobbed	bob	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	up	up	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	14	expl	_	_
14	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	flash	flash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	steel	steel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
19	followed	follow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl	_	_
20	by	by	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	cry	cry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	whoop	whoop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bob up** | participle | a head |  |  | the water; here; there |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in water=Location |
| 2 | **be** | past | a flash of steel |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **follow** | participle |  | steel *not said here* |  |  |  | by a cry or a whoop | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by cry=Location |
| 4 | **flash** |  | steel |  |  |  |  |  | nom flash «event intransitive»: of=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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