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title: Peter, feeling her slip from him, woke with a start, and was just in… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: Peter, feeling her slip from him, woke with a start, and was just in time to draw her back. Who acts: Peter, Wendy. 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 261

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Peter, feeling her slip from him, woke with a start, and was just in time to draw her back.

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**Who acts:** Peter, Wendy · **What happens:** feel, wake, be, draw, slip · **To what, where:** slip, back

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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 (Peter, Wendy), 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:pg16:9:261
# text = Peter, feeling her slip from him, woke with a start, and was just in time to draw her back.
1	Peter	Peter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	feeling	feel	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	acl	_	_
4	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	slip	slip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
9	woke	wake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	start	start	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
16	just	just	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	draw	draw	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl	_	_
21	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feel** | gerund | Peter *not said here* | Wendy's slip |  |  |  | from Peter | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent slip=Theme |
| 2 | **wake** | past | Peter |  |  |  |  | with a start | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with start=Instrument |
| 3 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  | in time |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **draw** | to-infinitive | Peter *not said here* | Wendy's back |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent back=Theme |
| 5 | **slip** |  | Wendy |  |  |  |  |  | nom slip «act intransitive»: poss=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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