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title: Of course she should have roused the children at once; not merely be… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: Of course she should have roused the children at once; not merely because of the unknown that was stalking toward them, but because it was no longer good for them to sleep on a rock grown chilly. Who acts: that, course, captains. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’
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# Peter Pan, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, sentence 32

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Of course she should have roused the children at once; not merely because of the unknown that was stalking toward them, but because it was no longer good for them to sleep on a rock grown chilly.

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**Who acts:** that, course, captains · **What happens:** rouse, stalk, be, sleep, grow · **To what, where:** Wendy, rock

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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 (that, course, 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:pg16:9:32
# text = Of course she should have roused the children at once; not merely because of the unknown that was stalking toward them, but because it was no longer good for them to sleep on a rock grown chilly.
1	Of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
2	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	fixed	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	aux	_	_
6	roused	rouse	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	advcl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
13	merely	merely	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
14	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	fixed	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	unknown	unknown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
18	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	stalking	stalk	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
21	toward	toward	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
24	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
25	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
27	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
28	no	no	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	30	advmod	_	_
30	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
31	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
32	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
33	to	to	PART	TO	_	34	mark	_	_
34	sleep	sleep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	advcl	_	_
35	on	on	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
38	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	37	acl	_	_
39	chilly	chilly	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	30	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rouse** | should · perfect · passive |  | Wendy |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **stalk** | past · progressive | that |  |  |  |  | toward captains *= captain* | vn stalk-35.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | past | course |  |  |  |  | good, long *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **sleep** | to-infinitive | captains *= captain* |  |  | a rock |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **grow** | participle |  | a rock *not said here* |  |  |  | chilly *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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