--- title: She was to be left on the rock to perish, an end to one of her race… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics description: She was to be left on the rock to perish, an end to one of her race more terrible than death by fire or torture, for is it not written in the book of the tribe that there is no path through water to the happy hunting-ground? Who acts: fire, path, Tiger. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Cha --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/9/52/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Peter Pan](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/) / [Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/9/) / 52 # Peter Pan, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, sentence 52 She was to be left on the rock to perish, an end to one of her race more terrible than death by fire or torture, for is it not written in the book of the tribe that there is no path through water to the happy hunting-ground? **Who acts:** fire, path, Tiger · **What happens:** leave, perish, not write, be, race · **To what, where:** Tiger, rock, torture, book 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 (fire, path, Tiger), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg16:9:52 # text = She was to be left on the rock to perish, an end to one of her race more terrible than death by fire or torture, for is it not written in the book of the tribe that there is no path through water to the happy hunting-ground? 1 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux:pass _ _ 3 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 4 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 5 aux:pass _ _ 5 left leave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 6 on on ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 rock rock NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 9 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 10 perish perish VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 end end NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 14 to to ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 20 nsubj _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 race race NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ _ 19 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 20 advmod _ _ 20 terrible terrible ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 acl:relcl _ _ 21 than than ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 death death NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 23 by by ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 fire fire NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 25 or or CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 torture torture NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 28 for for SCONJ IN _ 32 mark _ _ 29 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 aux:pass _ _ 30 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj:pass _ _ 31 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 32 advmod _ _ 32 written write VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 conj _ _ 33 in in ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 book book NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 36 of of ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 tribe tribe NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nmod _ _ 39 that that SCONJ IN _ 41 mark _ _ 40 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 41 expl _ _ 41 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 advcl _ _ 42 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 43 det _ _ 43 path path NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 nsubj _ _ 44 through through ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 45 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 nmod _ _ 46 to to ADP IN _ 51 case _ _ 47 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 51 det _ _ 48 happy happy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 51 amod _ _ 49 hunting hunting NOUN NN Number=Sing 51 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 50 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 49 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 51 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 52 ? ? PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **leave** | past · passive | fire or torture | Tiger | | the rock | a end | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent subject=Theme on rock=Location | | 2 | **perish** | to-infinitive | fire or torture *not said here* | | | | | | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **not** **write** | present · passive | | torture | | the book of the tribe | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in book=Destination | | 4 | **be** | present | no path through water to the happy hunting ground | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **race** | | Tiger | | | | | | nom race «event intransitive»: poss=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 51](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/9/51/) - next →: [sentence 53](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/9/53/) - ↑ back to [Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/9/)