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title: Each feeling for a grip met the other’s arm: in surprise they raised… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: Each feeling for a grip met the other’s arm: in surprise they raised their heads; their faces were almost touching; so they met. Who acts: feeling, others, faces. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# Peter Pan, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, sentence 228

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Each feeling for a grip met the other’s arm: in surprise they raised their heads; their faces were almost touching; so they met.

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**Who acts:** feeling, others, faces · **What happens:** meet, raise, touch · **To what, where:** arm, heads, surprise

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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 (feeling, others, faces), 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:pg16:9:228
# text = Each feeling for a grip met the other’s arm: in surprise they raised their heads; their faces were almost touching; so they met.
1	Each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	feeling	feeling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	grip	grip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	’s	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	arm	arm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	surprise	surprise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	raised	raise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
16	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
19	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	faces	face	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
21	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	touching	touch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	so	so	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
26	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **meet** | past | each feeling for a grip | the other's arm |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **raise** | past | others *= other* | others's heads |  | surprise |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme in surprise=Destination |
| 3 | **touch** | past · progressive | others's faces |  |  |  |  | almost *property* | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **meet** | past | others *= other* |  |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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