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title: A tremour ran through him, like a shudder passing over the sea; but… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: A tremour ran through him, like a shudder passing over the sea; but on the sea one shudder follows another till there are hundreds of them, and Peter felt just the one. Who acts: tremour, shudder, hundreds, Peter. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, with it
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# Peter Pan, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, sentence 296

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A tremour ran through him, like a shudder passing over the sea; but on the sea one shudder follows another till there are hundreds of them, and Peter felt just the one.

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**Who acts:** tremour, shudder, hundreds, Peter · **What happens:** run, pass, follow, be, feel · **To what, where:** sea, another, sea shudder, one

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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 (tremour, shudder, hundreds, Peter), 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:pg16:9:296
# text = A tremour ran through him, like a shudder passing over the sea; but on the sea one shudder follows another till there are hundreds of them, and Peter felt just the one.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	tremour	tremour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	through	through	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	like	like	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	shudder	shudder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
10	passing	pass	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	acl	_	_
11	over	over	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
19	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	flat	_	_
20	shudder	shudder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
21	follows	follow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
22	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	21	obj	_	_
23	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
24	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	25	expl	_	_
25	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	advcl	_	_
26	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
31	Peter	Peter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
32	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
33	just	just	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | past | a tremour |  |  |  |  | through Peter; like a shudder | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through he=Trajectory |
| 2 | **pass** | gerund | a shudder *not said here* |  |  | the sea |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme over sea=Location |
| 3 | **follow** | present |  | another |  | the sea shudder |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent another=Theme on shudder=Trajectory |
| 4 | **does** | present | hundreds of boys |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **feel** | past | Peter | the one |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=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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