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title: On ordinary occasions the boys would have swum alongside cheering; b… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: On ordinary occasions the boys would have swum alongside cheering; but now they were uneasy, for they had lost both Peter and Wendy, and were scouring the lagoon for them, calling them by name. Who acts: boys. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, with its de
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# Peter Pan, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, sentence 249

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On ordinary occasions the boys would have swum alongside cheering; but now they were uneasy, for they had lost both Peter and Wendy, and were scouring the lagoon for them, calling them by name.

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**Who acts:** boys · **What happens:** swim, cheer, be, lose, scour, call · **To what, where:** boys, ordinary occasions, Peter, lagoon · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (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:pg16:9:249
# text = On ordinary occasions the boys would have swum alongside cheering; but now they were uneasy, for they had lost both Peter and Wendy, and were scouring the lagoon for them, calling them by name.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	occasions	occasion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	aux	_	_
8	swum	swim	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	alongside	alongside	ADP	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
10	cheering	cheer	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
13	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	16	advmod	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
16	uneasy	uneasy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
19	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	16	conj	_	_
22	both	both	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc:preconj	_	_
23	Peter	Peter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	Wendy	Wendy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	scouring	scour	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	lagoon	lagoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
32	for	for	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
35	calling	call	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	29	conj	_	_
36	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	obj	_	_
37	by	by	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **swim** | would · perfect · passive |  | the boys |  | ordinary occasions |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **cheer** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is** | past | boys *= boy* |  |  |  | now | uneasy *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **lose** | past · perfect | boys *= boy* | Peter and Wendy |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **scour** | past · progressive | boys *= boy* *not said here* | the lagoon |  |  |  | for boys *= boy* | vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent lagoon=Location for they=Theme |
| 6 | **call** | gerund | boys *= boy* *not said here* | boys *= boy* |  |  |  | by name | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient |

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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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