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title: There crowded upon her all the stories she had been told of Marooner… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: There crowded upon her all the stories she had been told of Marooners’ Rock, so called because evil captains put sailors on it and leave them there to drown. Who acts: evil captains. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# Peter Pan, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, sentence 30

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There crowded upon her all the stories she had been told of Marooners’ Rock, so called because evil captains put sailors on it and leave them there to drown.

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**Who acts:** evil captains · **What happens:** tell, call, put, leave, drown · **To what, where:** crowded stories, Rock, sailors, place · **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 (evil captains), 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:pg16:9:30
# text = There crowded upon her all the stories she had been told of Marooners’ Rock, so called because evil captains put sailors on it and leave them there to drown.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	crowded	crowded	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
3	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	_
5	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	7	det:predet	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
9	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Marooners	Marooner	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	15	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	’	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
15	Rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	so	so	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	parataxis	_	_
19	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
20	evil	evil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	captains	captain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
22	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	_
23	sailors	sailor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
24	on	on	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obl	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	conj	_	_
28	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	27	advmod	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	drown	drown	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past · perfect · passive |  | all crowded stories | Marooners's Rock |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient rock=Topic |
| 2 | **call** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **put** | past | evil captains | sailors |  | place |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent sailor=Theme on it=Destination |
| 4 | **leave** | infinitive | evil captains *not said here* | sailors *= sailor* |  | there |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 5 | **drown** | to-infinitive | evil captains *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=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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