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description: They called Peter the Great White Father, prostrating themselves before him; and he liked this tremendously, so that it was not really good for him. Who acts: braves, Lily, pipe. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter X. THE HAPPY HOME, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# Peter Pan, Chapter X. THE HAPPY HOME, sentence 5

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They called Peter the Great White Father, prostrating themselves before him; and he liked this tremendously, so that it was not really good for him.

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**Who acts:** braves, Lily, pipe · **What happens:** call, prostrate, like, not be · **To what, where:** Peter, braves, this · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (braves, Lily, pipe), 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:pg16:11:5
# text = They called Peter the Great White Father, prostrating themselves before him; and he liked this tremendously, so that it was not really good for him.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Peter	Peter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	Great	Great	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	_
6	White	White	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	Father	Father	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	prostrating	prostrate	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
10	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	9	obj	_	_
11	before	before	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	liked	like	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
17	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	obj	_	_
18	tremendously	tremendously	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
20	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	26	mark	_	_
21	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	20	fixed	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
24	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
25	really	really	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	conj	_	_
27	for	for	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** *speech: assert* | past | braves *= brave* |  | Peter |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent peter=Recipient |
| 2 | **prostrate** | gerund | braves *= brave* *not said here* | braves *= brave* |  |  | before Lily |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **like** | past | Lily | this |  |  |  | tremendously *property* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot this=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **is** | past | pipe |  |  |  |  | for Lily; good *property* | tree rules |

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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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