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title: Such a deliciously creepy song it was, in which they pretended to be… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: Such a deliciously creepy song it was, in which they pretended to be frightened at their own shadows, little witting that so soon shadows would close in upon them, from whom they would shrink in real fear. Who acts: redskins, little witting. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter X. THE 
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# Peter Pan, Chapter X. THE HAPPY HOME, sentence 141

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Such a deliciously creepy song it was, in which they pretended to be frightened at their own shadows, little witting that so soon shadows would close in upon them, from whom they would shrink in real fear.

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**Who acts:** redskins, little witting · **What happens:** pretend, frighten, close in, shrink, shadow · **To what, where:** creepy song, own shadows, real fear

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This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter X. THE HAPPY HOME. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (redskins, little witting), 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:pg16:11:141
# text = Such a deliciously creepy song it was, in which they pretended to be frightened at their own shadows, little witting that so soon shadows would close in upon them, from whom they would shrink in real fear.
1	Such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	5	det:predet	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	deliciously	deliciously	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	creepy	creepy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	obl	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	pretended	pretend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
14	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	frightened	frighten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	ccomp	_	_
16	at	at	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
18	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	shadows	shadow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	witting	witting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	appos	_	_
23	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	28	nsubj	_	_
24	so	so	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
25	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	28	advmod	_	_
26	shadows	shadow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj	_	_
27	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	close	close	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	acl:relcl	_	_
29	in	in	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
30	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
33	from	from	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	37	obl	_	_
35	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
36	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
37	shrink	shrink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	parataxis	_	_
38	in	in	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pretend** | past | redskins *= redskin* |  |  | such creepy song |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **frighten** | to-infinitive · passive | redskins *= redskin* *not said here* |  |  | redskins's own shadows |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» |
| 3 | **close in** | would | little witting |  |  |  |  | upon redskins *= redskin*; soon *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **shrink** | would | redskins *= redskin* |  |  | real fear |  |  | vn flinch-40.5 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer from whom=Stimulus |
| 5 | **shadow** |  | redskins *= redskin* |  |  |  |  |  | nom shadow «state transitive»: poss=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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