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title: Quite near the rock, but out of sight, two heads were bobbing up and… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: Quite near the rock, but out of sight, two heads were bobbing up and down, Peter’s and Wendy’s. Who acts: two heads. 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 62

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Quite near the rock, but out of sight, two heads were bobbing up and down, Peter’s and Wendy’s.

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**Who acts:** two heads · **What happens:** bob up · **To what, where:** rock, sight

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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 (two heads), 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:pg16:9:62
# text = Quite near the rock, but out of sight, two heads were bobbing up and down, Peter’s and Wendy’s.
1	Quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	near	near	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
6	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
7	out	out	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
11	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
13	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	bobbing	bob	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
15	up	up	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	down	down	ADV	RB	_	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	Peter	Peter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	’s	's	PART	POS	_	19	case	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	Wendy	Wendy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	’s	's	PART	POS	_	19	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bob up** | past · progressive | two heads | the rock *not said here* |  | sight |  | 's Peter and Wendy | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rock=Patient |

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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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