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title: It was the work of one brutal moment to land the beautiful girl on t… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: It was the work of one brutal moment to land the beautiful girl on the rock; she was too proud to offer a vain resistance. Who acts: redskin, girl. 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 61

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It was the work of one brutal moment to land the beautiful girl on the rock; she was too proud to offer a vain resistance.

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**Who acts:** redskin, girl · **What happens:** be, land, offer · **To what, where:** work, beautiful girl, rock, vain resistance

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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 (redskin, girl), 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:pg16:9:61
# text = It was the work of one brutal moment to land the beautiful girl on the rock; she was too proud to offer a vain resistance.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
7	brutal	brutal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	land	land	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	acl	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
20	too	too	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	proud	proud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	offer	offer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	csubj	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	vain	vain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	resistance	resistance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | redskin | the work |  |  | moment |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **land** | to-infinitive | redskin *not said here* | the beautiful girl |  | the rock |  |  | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent girl=Theme on rock=Destination |
| 3 | **is** | past | girl |  |  |  |  | proud *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **offer** | to-infinitive |  | a vain resistance |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent resistance=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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