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title: They found the dinghy and went home in it, shouting “Peter, Wendy” a… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: They found the dinghy and went home in it, shouting “Peter, Wendy” as they went, but no answer came save mocking laughter from the mermaids. Who acts: boys, answer. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# Peter Pan, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, sentence 250

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They found the dinghy and went home in it, shouting “Peter, Wendy” as they went, but no answer came save mocking laughter from the mermaids.

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**Who acts:** boys, answer · **What happens:** find, go, shout, come, save, mock · **To what, where:** dinghy, Peter, laughter

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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, answer), 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:pg16:9:250
# text = They found the dinghy and went home in it, shouting “Peter, Wendy” as they went, but no answer came save mocking laughter from the mermaids.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	dinghy	dinghy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
7	home	home	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	shouting	shout	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
12	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	Peter	Peter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	Wendy	Wendy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
17	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
18	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	23	det	_	_
23	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
25	save	save	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	xcomp	_	_
26	mocking	mock	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	25	obj	_	_
27	laughter	laughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
28	from	from	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	mermaids	mermaid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | past | boys *= boy* | the dinghy |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dinghy=Topic |
| 2 | **go** | past | boys *= boy* *not said here* |  |  | dinghy |  | home *property* | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in it=Location |
| 3 | **shout** *speech: express* | gerund | boys *= boy* *not said here* | Peter and Wendy |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peter=Topic |
| 4 | **go** | past | boys *= boy* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **come** | past | no answer |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **save** | infinitive | no answer *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **mock** | gerund |  | laughter |  |  |  | from the mermaids | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent laughter=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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