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title: “Michael’s kite,” Peter said without interest, but next moment he ha… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: “Michael’s kite,” Peter said without interest, but next moment he had seized the tail, and was pulling the kite toward him. Who acts: Peter, Michael. 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 284

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“Michael’s kite,” Peter said without interest, but next moment he had seized the tail, and was pulling the kite toward him.

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**Who acts:** Peter, Michael · **What happens:** say, seize, pull, kite · **To what, where:** next moment, kite · **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 (Peter, Michael), 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:pg16:9:284
# text = “Michael’s kite,” Peter said without interest, but next moment he had seized the tail, and was pulling the kite toward him.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Michael	Michael	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	’s	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	kite	kite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
7	Peter	Peter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	without	without	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	interest	interest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
13	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	seized	seize	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	pulling	pull	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	kite	kite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	toward	toward	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Peter |  |  |  |  | without interest | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **seize** | past · perfect · passive |  | next moment |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **pull** | past · progressive | Peter *not said here* | the kite |  |  |  | toward Michael | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kite=Theme |
| 4 | **kite** *in a quote* |  | Michael |  |  |  |  |  | nom kite «possession transitive»: 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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